Oral history interview with Ilse Lewy
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ilse Lewy on April 25, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
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
- Ilse Lewy
- Lewy, Ilse.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Jews, German--United States.
- Elberfeld (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines.
- Military nursing--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Sweden.
- Jews--Germany--Elberfeld.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Ocean travel.
- Antisemitism--United States.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Philippines.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Jews--Germany--Elberfeld.
- Jewish refugees.
Genre
- Oral History
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