Oral history interview with Ya'akov Visgorditzki
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Visgorditzki in Israel on October 25, 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
- Ya'akov Visgorditzki
- Visgorditzki, Ya'akov, 1931-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Germany.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Adoption.
- Refugee camps--Poland.
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Kraków (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jewish orphans.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Sztutowo (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History