Oral history interview with Meir Tzoref
Extent and Medium
14 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Meir Tzoref in Israel on January 29, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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
- Yelin, Haim, 1912-1944.
- Tzoref, Meir, 1920-
- Meir Tzoref
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Devintasis fortas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Collective farms--Lithuania.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Zionists.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Lithuania.
- Passing (Identity)
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- Massacres--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Mass murder--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jews--Lithuania--Jonava.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jewish councils--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Identification cards--Lithuania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Hiding places--Lithuania.
- Hanging.
- Guerrillas--Lithuania.
- Forced labor.
- Great Action, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941.
- Death marches.
- Death march survivors.
- Construction workers.
- Childbirth.
- Black market--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Communists--Lithuania.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Vilijampole (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jonava (Lithuania)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Germany.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
Genre
- Oral History