Oral history interview with Samuel Wachtel
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Michal Sobelman
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Samuel Wachtel in Poland on May 12, 1995, for the Poland Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in January 1996.
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
Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
People
- Michal Sobelman
- Samuel Wachtel
- Morcinek, Gustaw, 1891-1963.
- Wachtel, Samuel.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Escapes.
- Kapos.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- Forced labor.
- Frostbite.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
- Quarries and quarrying.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Death march survivors.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Toes--Wounds and injuries.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Prisons
- Opava (Czech Republic)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
Genre
- Oral History