Oral history interview with Walter Morgenbesser
Extent and Medium
9 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Walter Morgenbesser in Israel on February 19, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10,1999, 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
- Walter Morgenbesser
- Morgenbesser, Walter, 1930-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Spišská Stará Ves (Slovakia)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Involuntary sterilization.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Romanies--Crimes against.
- Jews--Slovakia--Spišská Stará Ves.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps--Poland--Katowice.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Oranienburg (Germany)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Katowice (Poland)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Genre
- Oral History