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Oral history interview with Josef Januszewicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.24 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0024

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    Oral history interview with Josef Januszewicz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Josef Januszewicz, born in 1922 in Svencionys, Lithuania, describes his family and relationships with the prewar Jewish community; German soldiers relocating the Jewish community to the ghetto; the poor conditions of the ghetto; beatings by German and Lithuanian secret police; hearing screams from a mass shooting; murders of Jews by German soldiers before the mass shooting; an auction of stolen Jewish property; a party held by the killing squad after the mass execution of the Jewish population; a collaborator inviting local men to join in the killing of Jews in exchange for vodka; quarreling with the head of the perpetrators, resulting in his arrest and interrogation; German soldiers taking photographs of mass shootings; German soldiers taking the gold of the victims; collaborators committing murder in small towns; local townspeople living in Jewish-owned homes; and former policemen who were jailed after the war.
    Interviewee
    Josef Januszewicz
    Interviewer
    Berzinis, Saulius
    Date
    interview:  1998 September 20
    Geography
    creation: Vilnius (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Januszewicz, Josef.

    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.
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