Oral history interview with Ya'akov Lomas
Extent and Medium
15 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Lomas in Israel on April 23, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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
- Ya'akov Lomas
- Lomas, Ya'akov, 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
- Devintasis fortas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Smuggling--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Construction workers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Typhoid fever.
- Pogroms--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- England--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Lithuania.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Death march survivors.
- Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish councils--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Seta (Lithuania)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish police officers--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Death marches.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
Genre
- Oral History
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