Oral history interview with Simon Taitz
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors conducted the interview with Simon Taitz on April 12, 1983, in Washington, D.C., during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Conference. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. received the tapes of the interview in 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes by transfer in February 1995.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Simon Taitz
- Taitz, Simon, 1913-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
- Königsberg (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Lyricists.
- Singers.
- Forced labor.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish businesspeople.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Refugee camps--Germany--Landsberg am Lech.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Clock and watch makers.
- Hiding places--Lithuania--Kaunas.
Genre
- Oral History
- Music.
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