Oral history interview with William Himmelfarb
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Anthony DiIorio
Biographical History
Anthony Dilorio, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project, conducted the interview with William Himmelfarb in Bronx, NY on April 12, 1992.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- William Himmelfarb
- Anthony DiIorio
- Himmelfarb, William, 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Schlieben (Concentration camp)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Czestochowa (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Winchester (England)
- Typhoid fever.
- Thuringia (Germany)
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Koprzywnica (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Kapos.
- Weapons industry.
- Quarries and quarrying.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Skarzysko-Kamienna (Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Koprzywnica.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Road construction industry.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Antisemitism in education--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Koprzywnica.
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Veterans--United States.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- Forced labor.
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Windermere (England)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
Genre
- Oral History