Oral history interview with Samuel Willenberg

Identifier
irn502969
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.204
  • RG-50.120.0204
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502969

Extent and Medium

8 digital files, MPEG-4

Creator(s)

  • Nathan Beyrak

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Samuel Willenberg in Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on March 1, 1995, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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

Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Restrictions on use. Interview cannot be used in publication without the consent of the interviewee or his/her heirs.

People

  • Samuel Willenberg
  • Nathan Beyrak
  • Willenberg, Samuel, 1923-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Jews--Poland--Czestochowa.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Concentration camp inmates as guards.
  • Radość (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Zionists--Poland.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Opatów.
  • Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
  • Uprisings
  • World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Poland.
  • Patriotic music.
  • Concentration camps--Songs and music.
  • Treblinka (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Poland--Armed Forces.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
  • Concentration camp guards--Ukraine.
  • Kovel' (Ukraine)
  • Concentration camp guards--Poland.
  • False certification--Poland.
  • Forced labor--Poland--Treblinka.
  • Hiding places--Poland.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Poland.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel.
  • Opatów (Poland)
  • Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
  • Czestochowa (Poland)
  • Concentration camp escapes.

Genre

  • Oral History
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