Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with Marijona Tiesniesienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.88 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0088

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with Marijona Tiesniesienė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marijona Tiesniesienė, born in 1924 in Pašvitiniai (Pašvitinys), Lithuania, describes her family and the prewar Jewish community of Pašvitiniai; the treatment of the Jewish community by partisans, which included forced labor; her imprisonment by Germans soldiers; local townspeople bringing food to her family; her transfer to the Zhagare ghetto (Žagarė, Lithuania); the conditions in the Zhagare ghetto; the attempt of a local townsman to rescue her; the mass shooting of the Jews of the Zhagare ghetto; her rescue by a local collaborator from the mass shooting site; her stay with a local family, including the steps they took to protect her; the fates of her family members during and after the war; the arrest of the collaborator who rescued her after the war; and her postwar relationship with the family who protected her.
    Interviewee
    Marijona Tiesniesiene
    Interviewer
    Saulius Berzinis
    Date
    interview:  2001 May 11
    Geography
    creation: Žagar? (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Lithuanian
    Extent
    1 videocasette (Betacam SP).

    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
    Tiesniesienė, Marijona.

    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 08:42:15
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn509516

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us