Oral history interview with Tzila Prusak
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Tzila Prusak in Israel on November 23, 1997. 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
Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Interview cannot be used in publication without the consent of the interviewee or his/her heirs.
People
- Prusak, Tzila.
- Tzila Prusak
Corporate Bodies
- Gutowo (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Munich (Germany)
- Smuggling.
- Forced labor.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Kybartai (Lithuania)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish councils.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Husband and wife.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Hiding places.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
Genre
- Oral History