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Interference plays an important role in reorganization of memories. Yet, the direction of this reorganization was left unexplained as well as the factors that lead to interference in autobiographical memory. This study aimed at investigating the types of memories that are more or less susceptible to interference. One hundred and forty-seven participants reported two holiday memories (one recent and one remote), and one accident memory in the first session, and retrieved the same event memories in the second session. In the beginning of the second session, participants were randomly assigned to four different interference conditions. One group had interference that was induced by telling a third holiday memory of theirs. One group was asked to imagine a future holiday. In third group, interference was manipulated by making participants read another person's holiday memory. In the last experimental group, interference was induced by asking participants to read the school memory of another person. The control group did not have any interference condition. Results revealed that the groups did not differ in terms of how they remembered the details, thus our interference manipulations were not successful. Recent memories compared to remote memories were found to be less prone to errors in remembering month, year, and other people in the event details. Also, repeated events (holidays) compared to unique events (accidents) were more prone to errors in remembering year and other people details, but less prone to errors in retrieving month details. Place detail was protected against interference in all types of memories.