Oral history interview with Simon Taitz
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors conducted the interview with Simon Taitz on April 12, 1983, in Washington, D.C., during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Conference. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. received the tapes of the interview in 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes by transfer in February 1995.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Taitz, Simon, 1913-
- Simon Taitz
Corporate Bodies
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Singers.
- Clock and watch makers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Hiding places--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Lyricists.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Königsberg (Germany)
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
- Jewish businesspeople.
- Refugee camps--Germany--Landsberg am Lech.
Genre
- Oral History
- Music.
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