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Oral history interview with Ona Macienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.64 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0064

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    Oral history interview with Ona Macienė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ona Macienė, born in Lithuania, describes her family and the Jewish community of Darbėnai; her employment in the house of the local rabbi; assisting Jewish refugees from Klaipėda, Lithuania; local townspeople bringing food to the Jewish community members; actions of local Nazi collaborators; encouraging Jewish women to try to escape; a local woman who helped Jews escape; helping Jewish women escape into the forest; the mass shootings of local Jews and Soviet soldiers by German and Lithuanian soldiers; details of the mass shootings; the death of her brother; and the local priest who denounced the murder of Jews.
    Interviewee
    Ona Maciene
    Interviewer
    Saulius Berzinis
    Date
    interview:  2000 August 18
    Geography
    creation: Darb?nai (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Lithuanian
    Extent
    4 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
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Macienė, Ona.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    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 08:42:07
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