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Oral history interview with Zhenja Gurevich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.286 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0286

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    Oral history interview with Zhenja Gurevich

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zhenja Gurevich (née Zaretzka), born in Svencionys, Lithuania in 1927, discusses her early family life; attending school and her religious education; the arrival of the Germans; being moved to a former Polish military camp in Poligon, Lithuania; establishment of the ghetto in Svencionys, Lithuania; the death of her mother and two brothers; being sent to work on the railroad being built in Nova Svencionys (Svencioneliai), Lithuania; the underground organization in the Svencionys ghetto, including Markov, a folk-shule teacher who urged people to use a weapon to leave the Svencionys ghetto and ultimately became a partisan commander in the forests; liquidation of the Svencionys ghetto; hiding in the forest; work in the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto; rebellion in and liquidation of the Vilna ghetto; her work near Riga, Latvia in Strazde, Latvia, moving construction materials; being transferred to Kaiserwald and returning to Strazde; traveling by boat to Stutthof; the evacuation of Stutthof; liberation; being taken to a hospital in Lwówek Slaski, Poland, where she received treatment for typhoid fever; working in a field hospital; traveling back to Vilna via Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and eventual arriving in Svencionys; reuniting with a surviving cousin; her marriage in 1947; her arrival in Israel after its independence in 1948; life in Israel; and returning with her daughter, Miriam, to Svencionys on the fiftieth anniversary of liberation.
    Interviewee
    Zhenja Gurevich
    Date
    interview:  1996 August 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Jenia Gurevich in Israel on August 1, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:58
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