Oral history interview with Alfred Cotton
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peter Ryan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Alfred Cotton on October 20, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from theBay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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
- Cotton, Alfred.
- Peter Ryan
- Alfred Cotton
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Sheffield (England)
- Jews--Germany--Hamburg.
- Jews, Polish--Germany.
- Jews, German--England.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Aliens--Great Britain.
- Anti-Jewish boycotts--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Suffolk (England)
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Congresses.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--England.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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