Oral history interview with Dov Hershkovitz
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Dov Hershkovitz in Israel on February 22, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 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, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Dov Hershkovitz
- Hershkovitz, Dov, 1913-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Death marches.
- Jewish ghettos--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
- Jewish soldiers--Czechoslovakia.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Ruthenia (Czechoslovakia)
- Jewish youth--Czechoslovakia--Societies and clubs.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Munich (Germany)
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Forced labor.
- Jewish councils--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Israel.
- Typhoid fever.
- Zionists.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral History