Oral history interview with Irena Veisaite
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Nathan Beyrak
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Irena Veisaite in Lithuania on September 7, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2006.
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
- Nathan Beyrak
- Irena Veisaite
- Veisaite, Irena, 1928-
Subjects
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Personal narratives.
- Massacres--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Escapes.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Poland.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.
- Forced labor--Lithuania.
- Lietūkis Garage Massacre, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Lithuania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.