- Interviewee
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Gita Werchol
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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F
- Interview Length
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2:14:05
- Interview Date
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5/2/1997
- Interview Location
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MA / U.S.A.
- Birth Year
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1924
- Birth City
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Birzai (Lithuania)
- Birth Country
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Lithuania
- Camps
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Stutthof (Danzig (FC) : Concentration Camp)
Riga-Dunawerke (Latvia : Concentration Camp)
Riga-Kaiserwald (Latvia : Concentration Camp)
Riga-Strasdenhof (Latvia : Concentration Camp)
Thorn (Torun/ Pomorze/ Poland : Concentration Camp)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Vilna (Poland : Ghetto)
- Type of Hiding Place
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houses
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ Soviet
- Location of Liberation
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Poland
- Other Experiences
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displaced persons camps
escapes during transfers
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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Orthodox Judaism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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traditional Judaism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.