Oral history interview with Chanoch Vilenchik
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chanoch Vilenchik in Israel on November 8, 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
- Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987.
- Chanoch Vilenchik
- Vilenchik, Chanoch, 1920-
- Wittenberg, Yitzhak, 1907-1943.
Corporate Bodies
- Fareynikte partizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania)
- World Hashomer Hatzair
- AK-Home Army (Poland)
Subjects
- Hiding places--Lithuania.
- Guerrillas--Lithuania.
- Jewish youth--Lithuania--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Forced labor.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism--Lithuania.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Ashmiany (Belarus)
- Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaia oblast', Russia)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Lida (Belarus)
- Maladzechna (Belarus)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
Genre
- Oral History