Oral history interview with Vilma Ofak
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
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. Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Vilma Ofak on February 5, 2009 as part of the Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Ofak, Vilma.
- Vilma Ofak
Corporate Bodies
- Yugoslav People’s Army
- Germany. Gestapo
Subjects
- Guerrillas--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Kočevje (Slovenia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Massacres--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- Mass burials--Slovenia.
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- Mass murder--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
Genre
- Oral History