Oral history interview with Chaim Engel
Extent and Medium
3 film reels, color ; 16 mm
4 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
2 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bradley
Biographical History
Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Chaim Engel on February 12, 1992, in Bradford, Conn., in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the films and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Engel, Selma, 1922-
- Sandra Bradley
- Chaim Engel
- Engel, Chaim, 1916-2003.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Sabotage--Poland--Sobibór.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Massacres--Poland--Sobibór.
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
- Escapes--Poland.
- Concentration camp escapes--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Hiding places--Poland.
- Concentration camp guards--Poland.
- Uprisings.
- Courage.
- Gas chambers--Poland.
- Forced labor.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Insurgency--Poland--Sobibór.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Sobibór (Poland)
- Kapos--Poland.
Genre
- Oral History