Oral history interview with Elka Farfel
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Elka Farfel in Israel on October 18, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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
- Farfel, David, 1920-
- Zorin, Shalom, 1902-1974.
- Elka Farfel
- Farfel, Elka, 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Schlachtensee (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Hiding places--Belarus.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Refugee camps--Germany--Berlin.
- Abortion.
- Jews--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Massacres--Belarus--Minsk.
- Massacre survivors--Belarus.
- Forced labor.
- Synagogues--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Navahrudak (Belarus)
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Niasvizh (Belarus)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Childbirth.
- Husband and wife.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Italy.
- Tempelhof (Berlin, Germany)
- Jews--Persecutions--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Mass murder--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Belarus
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- Naliboki Forest (Belarus)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- France.
- Jewish councils--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs.
- Massacres--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Jewish refugees--Germany.
- Germany.
- Resistance Groups (ushmm)
- Women guerrillas--Belarus.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Escapes.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Belarus.
Genre
- Oral History