National Council of Jewish Women (Cincinnati, Ohio) Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
Extent and Medium
1.2 linear feet (3 Hollinger boxes)
Creator(s)
- National Council of Jewish Women. Cincinnati Section
Acquisition
Received from the National Council of Jewish Women, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Scope and Content
Interviews with survivors of World War II living in Cincinnati. Topics include displaced persons, Jewish Holocaust, immigration, national socialism and Germany during that period.
Selected interviews from this collection are published in: Peck, Abraham J. and Uri D. Herscher. "Queen City Refuge: An Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany." West Orange, N.J. : Behrman House, 1989.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for use; no restrictions apply.
Sources
Preferred Citation
Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the National Council of Jewish Women (Cincinnati, Ohio) Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:
[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-226. National Council of Jewish Women (Cincinnati, Ohio) Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Corporate Bodies
- National Council of Jewish Women. Cincinnati Section
Subjects
- Immigrants
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
- National socialism
- Political refugees
- Jewish women
- Jews -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
- World War, 1939-1945
Genre
- Oral histories