Oral history interview with Ya'akov Lomas
Extent and Medium
15 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Lomas in Israel on April 23, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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
- Ya'akov Lomas
- Lomas, Ya'akov, 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Devintasis fortas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Smuggling--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Death marches.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- England--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jewish police officers--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Pogroms--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Seta (Lithuania)
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish councils--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Lithuania.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Construction workers.
- Typhoid fever.
- Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
Genre
- Oral History
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