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Oral history interview with Feliksas Bilevičius

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.39 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0039

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    Oral history interview with Feliksas Bilevičius

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Feliksas Bilevičius, born in Lithuania, describes his family; his work for Jewish employers; his family's sadness following the killing of the Jewish population; torture by German soldiers; an incident in which Jewish girl in hiding was denounced and killed; bringing food to Jews living in the ghetto; punishments for those caught assisting Jews; the burning of books from the synagogue; the Jewish community in the ghetto believing that they were going to America; the mass shooting of the Jewish population; the looting of Jewish belongings by local townspeople and the guards of the ghetto; his interrogation by the KGB for theft; and local townspeople searching the mass burial site for gold after the war.
    Interviewee
    Feliksas Bilevicius
    Interviewer
    Berzinis, Saulius
    Date
    interview:  1998 September 23
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bilevičius, Feliksas.

    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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    2023-11-16 08:41:57
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