Oral history interview with Kurt Thomas
Extent and Medium
5 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Arwen Donahue
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Kurt Thomas on June 23 and 24, 1999.
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 Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Interview may not be used for commercial purposes without consent from Kurt Thomas or his estate.
People
- Kurt M. Thomas
- Engel, Chaim, 1916-2003.
- Engel, Selma, 1922-
- Thomas, Kurt, 1914-
- Arwen Donahue
Corporate Bodies
- Legie ceská
- Sobibór (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Boskovice (Czech Republic)
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust survivors--Religious life.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Boskovice.
- War crime trials.
- Uprisings.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Sobibór (Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Holocaust survivors--Travel--Czech Republic.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- Pennsylvania.
- Hiding places.
- Ukraine.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.
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