Masha Rolnikaite collection

Identifier: irn90136
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

Masha Rolnikaite donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 16, 2006. In 2016, after death of Masha Rolnikaite, Vitaly V. Romanenko donated to the Musuem remaining archives from Masha Rolnikaite house.

Scope and Content

The donation of 2006 consists of: 1 notebook [poetry and song lyrics composed by Masha Rolnikaite, in Yiddish, while in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto] Provenance: After her liberation from the Strasdenhof concentration camp, Masha found a notebook in the house in which she was recuperating and wrote the songs she had composed from memory. The collection also includes an oral history interview conducted with Masha on July 16, 2006 by Bret Werb and Vadim Altskan. In the interview, which is in Russian, Masha discusses the notebook with song lyrics, her Holocaust experiences in Vilnius and in Strasdenhof, and her post-war literary career. The donation of 2016 consist of: 20 boxes (documents, correspondence, photographs, albums, slides, newspapers) 1 box of visual materials: 6 video recordings, 7 sound recordings and 8 DVDs [interviews, radio broadcasts, lectures, short movies concerning the life and literary career of Rolnikaite (1927-2016)] Books [were transferred to the Museum Library]

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Masha Rolnikaite papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518568
- English
- boxes oversize boxes book enclosure oversize folders 15 9 1 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The Masha Rolnikaite collection consists of correspondence, documents, manuscript texts, news clippings, and other related materials, concerning the life and literary career of Rolnikaite (1927-2016), the Lithuanian-born chronicler of the Holocaust, whose best known work was her account of her time spent in the Vilnius ghetto, titled “Ia dolzhna rasskazat’” (I Must Tell). The correspondence series includes various letters written by and sent to Masha Rolnikaite. These include Boris Galperin son of Dmitry Galperin and survivor of the Kovno ghetto; Mira, Masha’s older sister and survivor of t...
Oral history interview with Masha Rolnikaite
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn90137
- English
- 1 CD,
- Updated 1 year ago

Masha Rolnikaite collection

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Masha Rolnikaite papers

Oral history interview with Masha Rolnikaite