Oral history interview with Meir Tzoref
Extent and Medium
14 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Meir Tzoref in Israel on January 29, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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
- Yelin, Haim, 1912-1944.
- Meir Tzoref
- Tzoref, Meir, 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Devintasis fortas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Childbirth.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Germany.
- Passing (Identity)
- Massacres--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Lithuania.
- Hanging.
- Hiding places--Lithuania.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- Construction workers.
- Zionists.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Identification cards--Lithuania.
- Forced labor.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania.
- Jewish councils--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Vilijampole (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Communists--Lithuania.
- Jonava (Lithuania)
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Great Action, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941.
- Mass murder--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Collective farms--Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Guerrillas--Lithuania.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Black market--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jews--Lithuania--Jonava.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
- Death march survivors.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Death marches.
Genre
- Oral History