Oral history interview with Ernest Pollak and Ilse Pollak

Identifier
irn507486
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1989.346.56
  • RG-50.031.0056
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507486

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Biographical History

The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois (now Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center) conducted the interview with Ernest and Ilse Pollak on January 8, 1987. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the tape of the interview from the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois on December 12, 1989.

Archival History

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Ernest Pollak
  • Ilse Pollak
  • Pollak, Ilse, 1923-
  • Pollak, Ernest, 1919-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Antisemitism--Germany.
  • Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
  • Netherlands.
  • Anti-Jewish boycotts.
  • Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Correspondence.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
  • Jews--Austria--Vienna.
  • Jewish soldiers--United States.
  • England.
  • Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Jews--Germany--Cologne.
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
  • Children of interfaith marriage.
  • Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
  • Cologne (Germany)
  • France.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Genre

  • Oral History
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