Oral history interview with Ruth Steinfeld
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Steinfeld on April 13, 1983. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Ruth Steinfeld
- Steinfeld, Ruth.
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews--Identity.
- Sisters.
- France.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--France.
- Jews--Germany--Sinsheim.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Child concentration camp inmates--France.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Houston (Tex.)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Forgiveness.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Sinsheim (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Gurs (France)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
Genre
- Oral History