Oral history with Skaidrīte Zavaļņeva, 1998 December 14 (excerpt)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Skaidrīte recalls the first Soviet occupation period from June 1940 and the following Nazi German occupation from July 1941. She describes the Nazi instigated Holocaust in Latvia. Her family hid two Jews – Abraham Shpungin and Matis Frost – in the family home in Dundaga, 1944. The family supplied these two Jews and six more, who stayed in the forest, with food and clothing until the capitulation of Germany on May 8, 1945. After WW2, Abraham and Matis returned to Rīga and kept in touch with the Vanags’ family. They both emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. On June 2, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Antons and Klāra Vanags, and their daughter, Skaidrīte, as Righteous Among the Nations. Skaidrīte describes her mother Klāra, who died in 1958.
Description
Type of resource | moving image |
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Form | videocassette |
Extent | 2 VHS tapes |
Place | Latvia |
Date created | December 14, 1998 |
Language | Latvian; English |
Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Broadcast standard | PAL |
Sound content | sound |
Color content | color |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Zavaļņeva, Skaidrīte, 1928- | |
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Interviewer | Neimane, Lelde | |
Interviewer | Reinholds, Aivars |
Subjects
Subject | Latvia > History > Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 |
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Subject | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Latvia |
Subject | Latvia > History > German occupation, 1941-1944 |
Genre | Filmed interviews |
Bibliographic information
Note | Reformatted by Stanford University Libraries in 2015. |
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Note | Latvian with English subtitles |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cd917jc3337 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- A digital use copy of the digitized files, except for ten edited videos that have been made accessible to the world through SearchWorks, is available in the Special Collections Reading Room for authorized researchers. Content is made available for research purposes only. For permission to access or reproduce, please send a written request to mol-access@lists.stanford.edu.
- Copyright
- Copyright © Occupation Museum Association of Latvia / Latvijas Okupācijas muzeja biedrība. All rights reserved.
Collection
Museum of the Occupation of Latvia audiovisual archive, 1994-2014
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