Oral history interview with Vladimir Izvestnyi
Extent and Medium
6 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 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. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Vladimir Izvestnyi in Latvia for the Latvia Documentation Project on March 1, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2005.
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.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Vladimir Izvestnyi
- Izvestnyi, Vladimir.
Corporate Bodies
- Salaspils (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
Subjects
- Star of David badges.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Mass burials--Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia.
- Latvia.
- Latvia--History--1940-1991.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Latvian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Latvia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- Mass murder--Latvia.
- Rīga (Latvia)
- Forced labor--Latvia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History