Oral history interview with Antons Pirožoks
Extent and Medium
2 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 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 Antons Pirožoks in Latvia for the Latvia Documentation Project on July 6, 2003. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in February 2004.
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
- Antons Pirozoks
- Antons Pirožoks.
Subjects
- Latvia.
- Soldiers--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Latvian.
- Prisoner-of-war camps.
- Forced labor--Latvia.
- Daugavpils (Latvia)
- Mass murder--Latvia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Prisoners of war--Latvia.
- Mass burials--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Jewish refugees--Latvia--Daugavpils.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Latvian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Shooting (Execution)--Latvia.
Genre
- Oral History