Overview
- Description
- The collection includes oral history interview transcripts and tape logs related to the documentary film "There Once Was a Town," produced and directed by Jeff Bieber in 1999 for WETA, a Public Broadcasting Service station. The interviews were conducted with Yaffa Eliach, author of There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, other survivors of Eishyshok, Poland (now Eišiškės, Lithuania), and their children.
- Date
-
inclusive:
circa 1997-1999
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jeff Bieber
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
-
2 boxes
- System of Arrangement
- The "There Once Was a Town" transcripts and tape logs are arranged as two series:
Series 1: Interview transcripts, 1997-1999
Series 2: Tape logs, circa 1997-1999
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Lithuania--Eišiškės--History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Eišiškės.
- Geographic Name
- Eišiškės (Lithuania)
- Personal Name
- Eliach, Yaffa.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jeff Bieber donated the "There Once Was a Town" transcripts and tape logs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:38:34
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn709087
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