Oral history interview with Lya Galperin
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lya Galperin on April 22, 1992 and May 28, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 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
- Galperin, Lya.
- Lya Galperin
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Romania.
- Riga (Latvia)
- Chisinau (Moldova)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Romania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Romania.
- Rape victims.
- Jews--Persecutions--Romania.
- Soldiers--Romania.
- Romania--History--1914-1944.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Bershad' (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History