Oral history interview with Sonja Vrščaj
Extent and Medium
3 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 Sonja Vrščaj on November 18, 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
- Vrščaj, Sonja.
- Sonja Vrščaj
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Women concentration camp guards--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Massacres--Slovenia.
- Mass murder--Slovenia.
- Italy--Armed Forces.
- Shooting (Execution)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Sežana (Slovenia)
- Prisons--Italy--Trieste.
- Trieste (Italy)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Germany.
- Oranienburg (Germany)
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Death march survivors.
- Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- State sponsored terrorism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Guerrillas--Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral History