Oral history interview with Ruth Finkelstein
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Amud Aish Memorial Museum's Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, produced the interview with Ruth Finkelstein on August 6, 2013.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
This testimony was recorded through a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Amud Aish Memorial Museum Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center.
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
- Ms. Ruth Finkelstein
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
- Finkelstein, Ruth.
- Chevrier, Fèlix.
Corporate Bodies
- Château de Chabannes (Orphanage)
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- World Union OSE
Subjects
- Jewish orphans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France--Chabannes (Creuse)
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Sabbath.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Mannheim (Germany)
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Vichy (France)
- Antisemitism in education--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Mannheim.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Hiding places--France.
- Antisemitism--Germany--Mannheim.
- Chabannes (Creuse, France)
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- France
- Pneumonia.
- Child concentration camp inmates--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Gurs (France)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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