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Oral history interview with Ona Bečelienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.14 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0014

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    Oral history interview with Ona Bečelienė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ona Bečelienė, born in 1924 in Paražniai, Lithuania, describes her family; the Jewish population of Kudirkos Naumiestis; the beginning of the war; German soldiers expropriating shops from both Jews and Lithuanians; Jewish men being taken away and being killed in Zyniai; hearing screaming and gunfire from a mass shooting of Jewish women and children near Kudirkos Naumiestis; visiting the mass murder site; townspeople from Naumiestis who searched the mass murder site for gold; the survival of a Jewish woman who had converted to Catholicism; the perpetrators; the looting and selling of Jewish belongings; her parents’ refusal to buy goods taken from victims; local priests condemning the mass murders and the purchasing of stolen property; a petition signed by local townspeople attempting to save the life of an elderly Jewish doctor; a group of young Communist Lithuanians killed by German soldiers; her decision to marry young so she would not be deported; local townspeople living in the homes of murdered Jews; German soldiers telling local townspeople they were going to be deported to Siberia; mourning the death of the Jewish community; and how some of the perpetrators now live in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Ona Beceliene
    Interviewer
    Saulius Berzinis
    Date
    interview:  1998 April 17
    Geography
    creation: Vilnius (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

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

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bečelienė, 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 08:41:50
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