Oral history interview with Vasili Hrapunov
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Vasili Hrapunov in Latvia for the Latvia Documentation Project on August 27, 2005. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in March 2006.
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
- Vasili Hrapunov
- Hrapunov, Vasili.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia.
- Torture--Latvia.
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Latvia.
- Burial, Premature.
- Magadan (Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Latvia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Latvian.
- Mass burials--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Latvia.
- Preili (Latvia)
- Mass murder--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Latvia.
- Shooting (Execution)--Latvia.
Genre
- Oral History