- Interviewee
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Meir Vilnai-Shapiro
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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2:36:58
- Interview Date
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1/30/1996
- Interview Location
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NY / U.S.A.
- Birth Year
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1926
- Birth City
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Vilna (Poland)
- Birth Country
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Poland
Lithuania
- Camps
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Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Wilna-Kailis (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Stutthof (Danzig (FC) : Concentration Camp)
Riga-Kaiserwald (Latvia : Concentration Camp)
Dondangen (Latvia : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Gelsenkirchen (Germany : Concentration Camp)(generic)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Vilna (Poland)
- 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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Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia : Ghetto)
- Other Experiences
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displaced persons camps
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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traditional Judaism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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Reconstructionist Judaism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.