Oral history interview with Eliezer Shvimer

Identifier
irn503056
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.248
  • RG-50.120.0248
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503056

Extent and Medium

7 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Eliezer Shvimer in Israel on June 2, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer inFebruary 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

  • Eliezer Shvimer
  • Schwimmer, Eliezer, 1924-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
  • Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs.
  • Berehove (Ukraine)
  • Bratislava (Slovakia)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Bilky (Zakarpats'ka oblast')
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Ukraine.
  • Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  • Sabotage.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Ukraine.
  • Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Berehove.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Bilky (Zakarpats'ka oblast', Ukraine)
  • Kapos.
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Fathers and sons.
  • Death marches.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Košice (Slovakia)
  • Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Forced labor.
  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)

Genre

  • Oral History
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