"Soldiers Without Weapons" excerpt
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Sophia Binkiene wrote "Soldiers Without Weapons" in 1967 and published it in Vilnius, Lithuania. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the translation of the excerpt in June 1992.
Scope and Content
Consists of an excerpt from the book by Sophia Binkiene, which is comprised of testimony by Dr. F. Gurviciene concerning the rescue of her daughter during the Holocaust by Dr. Ona Landsbergiene, the mother of the future democratically elected president of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis.
People
- Gurviciene, F.
- Landsbergiene, Ona.
- Landsbergis, Vytautas.
- Gurviciene, Bella.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
Subjects
- Hiding places.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Siauliai.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Deportation.
- Rescues.
- Jewish children.
- Lithuania.
Genre
- Document