Oral history interview with Lucia Shimel
Extent and Medium
13 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Lucia Shimel in Israel on July 1, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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.
- Shimel, Lucia.
- Lucia Shimel
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Kapos.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Latvia.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Siauliai (Lithuania)
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Antisemitism--Lithuania.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Lithuania.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Mass murder--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Riga (Latvia)
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Poland.
- Jews, Russian--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
Genre
- Oral History
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