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Oral history interview with Vytautas Šiupienis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.130 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0130

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    Oral history interview with Vytautas Šiupienis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vytautas Šiupienis, born in Černiukiškės, Lithuania (now part of Ponkiškiai) in 1929, discusses prewar Jewish Christian relations; Jewish persecution and murder; the imprisonment of the town's Jewish population in a ghetto guarded by Lithuanian collaborators (Baltaraiščiai or White Stripers); his family's participation in hiding Aba Gefen (USHMM interview RG-50.120.0387) and other Jewish people; his father's arrest for hiding a Jewish girl; hearing about roundups and mass killings; the organized looting and auction of Jewish property; German forces documenting their actions through photographs; and his father's feelings that the Jewish people were good people.
    Interviewee
    Vytautas Šiupienis
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2005 December 14
    Geography
    creation: Simnas (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
    Šiupienis, Vytautas.

    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 08:42:30
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