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Oral history interview with Adolfina Gylienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.89 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0089

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    Oral history interview with Adolfina Gylienė
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    Interview Summary
    Adolfina Gylienė (née Stankaitytė), born July 11, 1931 in Žagarė, Lithuania, describes her family and the prewar Jewish community of her hometown; bringing food to imprisoned Jewish men; a roundup of Jewish women and their relocation to the ghetto; the mass shootings of the Jewish community; visiting the mass burial site; local Nazi collaborators who participated in the shootings; the looting of Jewish property by local collaborators; and local townspeople living in Jewish homes.
    Interviewee
    Adolfina Gyliene
    Interviewer
    Berzinis, Saulius
    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
    Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gylienė, Adolfina.

    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:
    2022-07-28 19:52:14
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