Oral history interview with Mordechai Zeidel
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Mordechai Zeidel in Israel on June 25, 1993, 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
- Mordechai Zeidel
- Zeidel, Mordechai, 1926-
- Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987.
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
- Hechalutz (Organization)
- Nekamah (Resistance group)
Subjects
- Ignalina (Lithuania)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.
- Belarus.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Mass burials--Lithuania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish refugees.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish partisans (Holocaust)
- Svencionys (Lithuania)
- Israel.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Italy.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Hrodzenskaia voblasts' (Belarus)
- Guerrillas.
- Paneriai (Lithuania)
- Mass murder--Lithuania.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
Genre
- Oral History
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