Oral history interview with Melvin Suhd
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Melvin Suhd on December 18, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes 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
Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
People
- Melvin Suhd
- Suhd, Melvin.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 42nd
Subjects
- Antisemitism--United States.
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Dachau (Germany)
- France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Electrical engineers.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Jews--Michigan--Detroit.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
Genre
- Oral History