Oral history interview with Sima Skurkovitz
Extent and Medium
14 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Sima Skurkovitz in Israel on September 15,1992, 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
- Sima Skurkowitz
- Wolf, Leizer, 1910-1943.
- Glick, Hirsh, 1922-1944.
- Skurkowitz, Sima.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Vivikonna (Concentration camp)
- Narwa (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen
- Neuengamme (Concentration camp)
- Kivioli (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Typhoid fever.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Shooting (Execution)
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Star of David badges.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Tallinn (Estonia)
- Viivikonna (Kohtla-Järve, Estonia)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Hanging--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- War crime trials.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Estonia.
- Pogroms--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Jewish councils.
- Holocaust survivors.
Genre
- Oral History