Oral history interview with Shemshihu Spivack
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shemshihu Spivack in Israel 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
- Shemshihu Spivack
- Spivack, Shemshihu, 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Landeshut (Concentration camp)
- Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Waldlager V (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Jews, Polish--Palestine.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Antisemitism--Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Police--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Heidelberg (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.
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