Oral history interview with Shalom Kooper
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shalom Kooper in Israel on August 20, 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
- Huberman, Itzchak, 1929-
- Kooper, Shalom, 1918-
- Shalom Kooper
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Zionists.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Braunschweig (Germany)
- Strikes and lockouts--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish teachers--Sweden.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Łódź.
- Starvation--Poland--Łódź.
- Poland.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Łódź.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Songs and music.
- Jewish children--Crimes against--Poland.
- Wöbbelin (Germany)
- Orphanages--Poland--Łódź.
- Identification (Religion)
- Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish youth--Poland--Societies and clubs.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Jewish teachers--Poland.
- Forced labor.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Sweden.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Communists--Poland--Łódź.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- War crime trials.
Genre
- Oral History
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