Oral history interview with Avraham Shpoongin
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Avraham Shpoongin in Israel on November 13,1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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
- Shpungin, Avraham.
- Avraham Shpoongin
Corporate Bodies
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
- Dondangen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Latvia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish councils--Latvia--Riga.
- Massacres--Latvia--Riga.
- Dundaga (Latvia)
- Hiding places--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Pogroms--Latvia--Riga.
- Riga (Latvia)
- Mass murder--Latvia--Riga.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga.
- Concentration camp escapes--Latvia.
- Jekabpils (Latvia)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Latvia--Jekabpils.
- Forced labor.
- Rumbula Massacre, Rumbula, Latvia, 1941.
- Latvia--Ethnic relations.
Genre
- Oral History
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