Oral history interview with Mendel Halberstam

Identifier
irn38096
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.274
  • RG-50.610.0001
Dates
1 Jan 1975 - 31 Dec 1986
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn38096

Extent and Medium

3 DVD-ROMs.,

2 CD-ROMs.,

Biographical History

David Halberstam donated interviews with his father Mendel Halberstam to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 14 October 2009.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Halberstam

Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

People

  • Mendel Halberstam
  • Halberstam, Mendel.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie)
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
  • Jews--Social life and customs.
  • Oświęcim (Poland)
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie)
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
  • Flossenbürg (Germany)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Rabbis.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.

Genre

  • Oral History
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