Oral history interview with Helmut Kobler
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peggy Coster
- Jake Birnberg
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Helmut Kobler on August 13, 1992, November 23, 1992, February 11, 1993, June 17, 1993, September 9, 1993, and March 11, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2000.
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
- Jake Birnberg
- Kobler, Helmut.
- Helmut Kobler
- Peggy Coster
Subjects
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Forced labor.
- Mining engineers.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration.
- Ivancice (Czech Republic)
- Zatec (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Labor camps.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Children of interfaith marriage.
- Sudetenland (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Coal mines and mining.
Genre
- Oral History