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Oral history interview with Antanas Galuydis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.28 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0028

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    Oral history interview with Antanas Galuydis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Antanas Galuydis, born in 1911 in Svedasai, Lithuania, describes his childhood and family; his imprisonment in Zarasai, Lithuania by Soviet forces; escaping from jail; attempting to help the daughter of a Jewish doctor; the conditions of the ghetto; being denounced by his neighbors for sheltering a Jewish girl with whom he began a romantic relationship; his and his girlfriend's arrest by German soldiers; being brought with Jews to a killing site; his brother securing his release from partisans; searching for the clothing of his Jewish girlfriend; the reaction of Jewish prisoners once they realized they were going to be shot; the mass shooting by German soldiers, including details of the execution; his refusal to obey the order of his brother to kill his Jewish girlfriend; local townspeople watching the shootings; returning home; the sight of a German soldier beating those who cleaned the street; and a Jewish man who escaped and formed an underground detachment in the forest.
    Interviewee
    Antanas Galuydis
    Interviewer
    Saulius Berzinis
    Date
    interview:  1998 September 21
    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..

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Galuydis, Antanas.

    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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