Oral history interview with Bernhard Witkop

Identifier
irn511578
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0095.95
  • RG-50.163.0095
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511578

Extent and Medium

3 sound cassettes (60 min.),

Creator(s)

  • Gail Schwartz

Biographical History

The interview with Bernhard Witkop was conducted on May 30, 1989 as part of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington's oral history project to document Washington, DC area survivor's experiences of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview on May 26, 1993.

Archival History

Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Wieland, H. (Heinrich), 1877-
  • Gail Schwartz
  • Bernhard Witkop
  • Witkop, Bernhard, 1917-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ernie Pyle (Ship)

Subjects

  • Munich (Germany)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Belief and doubt.
  • Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
  • Children of interfaith marriage.
  • College teachers--Japan.
  • College teachers--United States.
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • College teachers--Germany.
  • Antisemitism--Germany.
  • Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
  • Refugee camps--Germany--Bremen.
  • Freising (Germany)
  • Japan.
  • Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
  • Agnosticism.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Germany.
  • Bremen (Germany)
  • Jews--Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany.

Genre

  • Oral History
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