Oral history interview with Yehuda Beilis
Extent and Medium
15 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yehuda Beilis in Israel on February 16, 1999. 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. A continuation of the interview, conducted on March 18, 1999 was received on August 31, 2001 and added to the existing interview.
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
- Blum, Léon, 1872-1950.
- Yehuda Beilis
- Beilis, Yehuda, 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Landsberg (Concentration camp)
- Betar
- Kaufering-Lager IV Hurlach (Concentration camp)
- Devintasis fortas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Israel. Army
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Jewish youth--Lithuania--Societies and clubs.
- Scouts (Youth organization members)--Lithuania.
- Palanga (Lithuania)
- Vilijampole (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Israel.
- Cannibalism.
- Sabotage--Lithuania.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania.
- Haifa (Israel)
- Massacres--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
- Massacre survivors--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Revenge.
Genre
- Oral History