Oral history interview with Marianna Ostrovskaja
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Marianna Ostrovskaja on January 5, 2007 for the Museum's Latvia Documentation Project. The Oral History Branch received the interview in August 2007.
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
- Marianna Ostrovskaja
- Ostrovskaja, Marianna.
Corporate Bodies
- Latvijas Aizsargu organizācija
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia.
- Shooting (Execution)--Latvia.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Mass murder--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Latvian.
- Paramilitary forces.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Daugavpils (Latvia)
- Latvia.
Genre
- Oral History