"There Once Was a Town" transcripts and tape logs
Extent and Medium
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2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jeff Bieber
Jeff Bieber donated the "There Once Was a Town" transcripts and tape logs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
Scope and Content
The collection includes oral history interview transcripts and tape logs related to the documentary film "There Once Was a Town," produced and directed by Jeff Bieber in 1999 for WETA, a Public Broadcasting Service station. The interviews were conducted with Yaffa Eliach, author of There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, other survivors of Eishyshok, Poland (now Eišiškės, Lithuania), and their children.
System of Arrangement
The "There Once Was a Town" transcripts and tape logs are arranged as two series: Series 1: Interview transcripts, 1997-1999 Series 2: Tape logs, circa 1997-1999
People
- Eliach, Yaffa.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Eišiškės.
- Jews--Lithuania--Eišiškės--History.
- Eišiškės (Lithuania)
Genre
- Document