Oral history interview with William Pels
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Lyssa Friedman
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with William Pels on May 26, 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
No restrictions on access
People
- Pels, William.
- Lyssa Friedman
- William Pels
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Hotels--Employees.
- Hungary--Emigration and immigration.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Passing (Identity)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- World War, 1939-1945--Hungary.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Austria--Vienna.
- Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands.
- Jews--Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Hotels--Austria--Vienna.
Genre
- Oral History
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