"Saved by a Right Man in Vilnius" Oral testimony of Simon Malkès
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Isabelle Pleskoff
Biographical History
Isabelle Pleskoff, head librarian at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme (Mahj), donated video recordings of Holocaust presentations and interviews produced by the Mahj to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2015. The interview was conducted on December 14, 2014 and the original French title is "Sauvés par un Juste à Vilnius avec Simon Malkès."
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme
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
Restrictions on use. Requests for copies and use must be submitted to Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme.
People
- Isabelle Pleskoff
- Simon Malkès
- Malkès, Simon, 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Yivo
- H.K.P. (Concentration camp : Vilnius, Lithuania)
Subjects
- Mass murder--Lithuania.
- Hiding places--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jews--Societies, etc.
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Zionists.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Lithuania.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.
- Jews--Identity.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Lithuania.
- Jewish families--Lithuania.
- Holocaust survivors--France.
Genre
- Oral History