Oral history interview with Fela Finkelshtein
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Fela Finkelshtein in Israel on May 1, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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
- Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940.
- Fela Finkelshtein
- Finkelshtein, Fela, 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi
- Betar
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Sovetskaia Armiia
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Zionists.
- Illegal arms transfers--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Hiding places--Germany.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Military education--Poland.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Austria.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Haifa (Israel)
- Italy.
- Escapes.
- Smuggling--Poland--Warsaw.
- Typhoid fever.
Genre
- Oral History
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