Overview
- Interviewee
- Yitzhak Sowewson
- Date
-
interview:
1998 March 10
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jeff Bieber
Physical Details
- Extent
-
8 videocasettes (Betacam SP).
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to WETA Television, Arlington, VA.
- Copyright Holder
- WETA Television
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Eišiškės. Jews--Lithuania--Eišiškės--History.
- Geographic Name
- Eišiškės (Lithuania)
- Personal Name
- Sowewson, Yitzhak.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jeff Bieber, on behalf of WETA Television, donated video interviews and supplementary paper material gathered for the documentary film "There Once Was a Town" to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2013.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
-
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:31:25
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