Frida Zimanene reading a report in the Revolution Museum

This is me in the Revolution Museum, where I used to work. I am taking the floor with the report on the activity of the museum. I am surrounded by the members of the governmental commission who came for a meeting. I don’t know their names. The picture was taken in Vilnius in the 1960s.

My husband insisted that I should get a university education. I was eager to do that myself. I entered the Teachers’ Training Institute. I was good at my studies as I had a lot of spare time. Upon graduation from the institute, I started working as a teacher in the higher party school for middle-tier directors. I worked there for 20 years. Then I was deputy director of the Revolution Museum. Of course, I got both my jobs only thanks to my husband. He was known, respected and had no problems with employment.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.

Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". 

Please contact collection [at] centropa.org (collection[at]centropa[dot]org).