Oral history interview with Mendel Herskovitz
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- David P. Boder
Biographical History
David P. Boder conducted the interview with Mendel Herskovitz on July 31, 1946, at the ORT training school in Paris, France. He recorded the interview in German and Yiddish and later transcribed it into English. Bernard Wolf served as translator. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview from the Library of Congress in 1998.
Archival History
Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from the Library of Congress
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Hayim.
- Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961.
- Herskovitz, Mendel.
- David P. Boder
- Mendel Herskovitz
Corporate Bodies
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Czestochowa (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Fur trade--France.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--France--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Germany.
- Thematic Apperception Test.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Concentration camp guards--Germany.
- Locksmiths--Poland--Łódź.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
- Industries--Poland--Łódź.
Genre
- Oral History