Overview
- Interview Summary
- Shep (né Sheapel) Zitler, born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, discusses his family; his experience in the Polish Army during World War II; fighting Germany while experiencing antisemitism in the Polish Army; being sent to a labor camp following Poland’s defeat, where he was captive five years and seven months; how the Germans shipped soil from Ukraine to Germany and how he was made to unload the soil from the trains; and his liberation by Russian forces in April 1945.
- Date
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interview:
1998 April 22
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Naval Oceanographic Office and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Stennis Space Center
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- Antisemitism--Poland. Death marches. Forced labor--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Prisoners of war--Lithuania. Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Poland. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Germany. United States--Emigration and immigration. Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Personal Name
- Zitler, Shep, 1917-2009.
- Corporate Name
- Anders' Army (Polish 2nd Corps)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Naval Oceanographic Office
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- Provenance
- The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Stennis Space Center, donated the recording with Shep Zitler to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in March 2012. NAVO produced the recording during its annual Holocaust Days of Remembrance ceremony in April 1998.
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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