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Oral history interview with Domicelė Černiauskienė

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.131 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0131

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    Oral history interview with Domicelė Černiauskienė

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Domicelė Černiauskienė, born in 1925 in Vištytis, Lithuania, describes the arrival of German forces in Vištytis; the persecution of the Jewish community and local townspeople suspected of communist ties; local townsmen guarding the basements in which prisoners were locked; learning that Jews were going to be killed; watching the transportation of prisoners to the murder site; the mass murders of Jews and communists; her forced labor burying the corpses of Jewish men and suspected Soviet collaborators; the mass murder site; local collaborators who assisted in the persecutions of Jews and communists; and the looting and distribution of Jewish owned property by local policemen.
    Interviewee
    Domicele Černiauskiene
    Interviewer
    Alicija Žukauskaitė
    Date
    interview:  2005 December 15
    Geography
    creation: Vištytis (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 Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    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 08:42:30
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