Oral history interview with Meir Gecht

Identifier
irn503133
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.282
  • RG-50.120.0282
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503133

Extent and Medium

4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Meir Gecht in Israel on July 18, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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, 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

  • Gecht, Meir, 1929-
  • Meir Gecht

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
  • Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
  • Wels (Austria)
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  • Child concentration camp inmates.
  • Cannibalism.
  • Moscow (Russia)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Death marches.
  • Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  • Kaunas (Lithuania)
  • Forced labor.
  • Upper Austria (Austria)
  • Transylvania (Romania)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
  • Death march survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.

Genre

  • Oral History
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