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Oral history interview with Ona Barisaitė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.127 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0127

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    Oral history interview with Ona Barisaitė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ona Barisaitė, born in Nemunaitis, Lithuania in 1923, discusses growing up feeling Russian; her father's and brother's arrests and executions for their Soviet affiliations; regulations imposed on the Jewish community by German occupiers; hearing about a mass killing organized and carried out by Lithuanian collaborators (Baltaraiščiai or White Stripers); visiting the gravesite where her brother was shot; knowing of two Jewish work camps in town; the monument built on the mass grave and its eventual removal; and learning about the lives of the killers from books after the war.
    Interviewee
    Ona Barisaite
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2005 December 13
    Geography
    creation: Alytus (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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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Barisaitė, Ona.
    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:42:29
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