Oral history interview with Sol Farkas
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sol Farkas on April 21, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tape of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in August 1999.
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
- Farkas, Sol.
- Sol Farkas
Corporate Bodies
- Hungary. Honvédség
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Romania--History--1914-1944.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Austria.
- Satu Mare (Satu Mare, Romania)
- Jewish ghettos--Romania--Satu Mare (Satu Mare)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Romania--Satu Mare (Satu Mare)
- Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Jewish soldiers--Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Jewish families--Hungary.
Genre
- Oral History
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