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Oral history interview with Vladas Balsevičius

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.103 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0103

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    Oral history interview with Vladas Balsevičius

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vladas Balsevičius, born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania in 1932, discusses his childhood in Kėdainiai; prewar Jewish life; prewar Christian Jewish relations; restrictions placed on the Jewish community at the beginning of the Nazi occupation; the Jewish community’s imprisonment in a ghetto; the ghetto’s German and Lithuanian security; living conditions in the ghetto; hearing gunfire from a mass shooting; the looting of Jewish homes during the shooting; the municipal organized auction of Jewish property; Soviet forces uncovering the mass grave in 1944; and erecting a monument over the site in 1955.
    Interviewee
    Vladas Balsevičius
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2004 September 10
    Geography
    creation: K?dainiai (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..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Balsevičius, Vladas.

    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 08:42:20
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