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Oral history interview with Arie Troitze

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235

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    Oral history interview with Arie Troitze

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Arie Troitze, born in Švencionėliai, Lithuania in 1926, describes growing up in a comfortable, moderately observant Jewish home; attending Yiddish school; anti-Jewish violence; the pogroms began in 1938, during which the windows of his home were broken; the Soviet occupation beginning in 1939, and the Jews experienced many changes; his brothers' fleeing to the Soviet Union; his father's murder in a mass killing in the forest; being left with his mother; being in round-up with his mother, aunt, and uncle to the Polygon; his mother pushing him to join another child being taken away (everyone else was killed in a mass shooting); living in the Svencionys ghetto with relatives for one and a half years; a visit by Abba Kovner and his contact with Yitzhak Arad; being transferred to Vilnius; non-Jews hiding him and two cousins; returning to the ghetto and living in an orphanage; being transferred to Vivikoni; slave labor repairing train tracks; frequent beatings; transfer by ship from Tallinn to Stutthof; prisoners throwing Kapos overboard; being badly beaten in Stutthof and barely avoiding being sent to the crematorium; being transferred to Buchenwald in late 1944; being hospitalized and witnessing cruel experimental medical procedures; joining a Polish prisoner group to escape selection; returning to the Jewish barracks; hiding in a sewer during selections; joining Polish non-Jewish prisoners upon emerging; liberation by United States troops; working as a translator for the Soviets; participating in arrests of SS; brief imprisonment for suspected collaboration; traveling to Vilnius; a cousin informing him of one brother's death and warning him to flee; joining a Deror kibbutz in Vilna; finding his other brother in Łódź, Poland; moving to Eschwege displaced persons camp; immigrating to Israel in 1949; his marriage and children; visiting Vilnius; helping to organize monuments at the Polygon, where his father had been killed; and nightmares resulting from his experience. He also shows photographs.
    Interviewee
    Arie Troitze
    Date
    undated: 
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    7 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Arie Troitze in Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:41
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