Oral history interview with Shimon Hamel
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shimon Hamel in Israel on June 20, 1993, 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 February1995.
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
- Hammel, Frédéric Chimon.
- Frederic Hammel
Subjects
- Strasbourg (France)
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--France.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish youth--France--Societies and clubs.
- Antisemitism--France.
- Scouts (Youth organization members)--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Lyon (France)
- Collective farms--Israel.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jews--France--Strasbourg.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genre
- Oral History
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