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Oral history interview with Rivka Peleg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.342 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0342

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    Oral history interview with Rivka Peleg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rivka Peleg, born in 1923 in Kaunas, Lithuania, discusses being the oldest of four children; her father's role in the community as a rabbi; her mother managing their large business; graduating from a Jewish-Lithuanian school; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of the family business; participating in Betar; marriage in 1941; German invasion; round-up of her husband and his father (she never saw them again); returning to her parents' home; round-up of her father (he did not return); one brother's arrest; his release due to the influence of a cousin who was on the Judenrat; the same brother's round-up from which he did not return; ghettoization; slave labor at an airport; she and her sister smuggling food with help from non-Jewish friends with whom they often hid; reassignment to labor at a brush factory; hiding with her siblings during round-ups; learning her other brother had been killed; betrayal when trying to obtain false papers; torture and imprisonment with her sister for six months; release due to their cousin's influence; hiding in a bunker with her sister, mother, and others during the ghetto liquidation; escaping with her sister with help from guards; hiding in a forest in Seirijai; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to university in Kaunas; marriage; immigration to Israel; the permanent psychological scars due to her experiences; and the hurt inflicted upon her by today's youth having no interest in learning about the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Rivka Peleg
    Date
    interview:  1998 April 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    2 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Peleg, Rivka.
    Corporate Name
    Betar

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Rivka Peleg in Israel on April 1, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:16:18
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