Oral history interview with Genia Shapiro
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Genia Shapiro on August 23, 1993. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in July 2003.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
People
- Shapiro, Genia.
- Genia Shapiro
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Smugglers--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jewish families--Lithuania.
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.
- Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1945.
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania.
- Smuggling--Lithuania--Kaunas.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Lithuania.
Genre
- Oral History