Oral history interview with Avraham Benesh
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Avraham Benesh in Israel on November 2, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, 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
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Edelstein, Jacob, -1944.
- Benesh, Avraham, 1906-
- Avraham Benesh
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Allach (Concentration camp)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- United States. Army
- Kaufering-Lager IV Hurlach (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Zionists.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany)
- Moravia (Czech Republic)
- Typhoid fever.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
- Jewish refugees.
- Jewish lawyers--Czech Republic.
- Death marches.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- Death march survivors.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1914-1918.
Genre
- Oral History
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