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Oral history interview with Jonas Kriaučiūnas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.101 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0101

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    Oral history interview with Jonas Kriaučiūnas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jonas Kriaučiūnas, born near Želva, Lithuania in 1932, discusses prewar Jewish life in Želva; villagers being forced to take Jews to the killing site in wagons; the roundup of the Jewish population in the immediately following the German occupation; anti-Jewish violence by local Lithuanian collaborators (Baltaraiščiai or White Stripers); further roundups of Jewish women and children; hearing the gunfire from a mass shooting; hidden Jewish children; looting of Jewish goods by the white stripers; the postwar fate of collaborators; and the destruction of Jewish property after the war.
    Interviewee
    Jonas Kriaučiunas
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2004 September 10
    Geography
    creation: Želva (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Lithuanian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kriaučiūnas, Jonas.
    Corporate Name
    Baltaraiščiai (Group)

    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 08:42:19
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