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Oral history interview with Josefa Olshavang

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.67.65 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0065

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    Oral history interview with Josefa Olshavang

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Josefa Olshavang, born on July 17, 1914 in Memel (Klaipėda), Lithuania, describes her family; attending school with Jewish students; not realizing that antisemitism existed around her; being raised in the Roman Catholic tradition; the death of her brother from tuberculosis in 1932; getting married to a Jewish man in 1938; the Russian invasion of Lithuania in 1940; the murder of her mother in a mass shooting; attaining a passport under her maiden name, so people would not recognize that she was married to a Jewish man; her husband being sent to fight in Russia in 1941; taking a Jewish girl into hiding; and her anger over the Catholic Church not helping the Jews more.
    Interviewee
    Josefa Olshavang
    Interviewer
    Gay Block
    Malka Drucker
    Date
    interview:  1988 July 26

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Olshavang, Josefa, 1914-
    Corporate Name
    Catholic Church

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Gay Block
    Provenance
    Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Josefa Olshavang on July 26, 1988 for their book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," Holmes & Meier, 1992, as well as their documentary film "They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch received the tapes of the interviews from Malka Drucker and Gay Block in March 1989.
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