Oral history interview with Meir Gecht
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Meir Gecht in Israel on July 18, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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, 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
- Gecht, Meir, 1929-
- Meir Gecht
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Landsberg (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Red Army (Soviet Union)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Budapest (Hungary)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Death march survivors.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Wels (Austria)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Transylvania (Romania)
- Cannibalism.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
Genre
- Oral History