Oral history interview with Sima Skurkovitz

Identifier
irn502869
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.151
  • RG-50.120.0151
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502869

Extent and Medium

14 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Sima Skurkovitz in Israel on September 15,1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

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

  • Skurkowitz, Sima.
  • Glick, Hirsh, 1922-1944.
  • Wolf, Leizer, 1910-1943.
  • Sima Skurkowitz

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Pogroms--Lithuania--Vilnius.
  • Shooting (Execution)
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Viivikonna (Kohtla-Järve, Estonia)
  • War crime trials.
  • Jewish councils.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration.
  • Hanging--Lithuania--Vilnius.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
  • Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
  • Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Estonia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
  • Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
  • Tallinn (Estonia)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Star of David badges.

Genre

  • Oral History
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