Oral history interview with Sonja Vrščaj
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Sonja Vrščaj on November 18, 2009 as part of the Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Sonja Vrščaj
- Vrščaj, Sonja.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Death march survivors.
- Oranienburg (Germany)
- Italy--Armed Forces.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Massacres--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- Prisons--Italy--Trieste.
- State sponsored terrorism.
- Guerrillas--Yugoslavia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- Mass murder--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Women concentration camp guards--Poland.
- Trieste (Italy)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Sežana (Slovenia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- Death marches.
- Germany.
- Shooting (Execution)--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History