Oral history interview with Walter Balaban
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Balaban on May 16, 1994 and August 8, 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
- Walter Balaban
- Balaban, Walter, 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Unterägeri (Switzerland)
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
- California.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- Switzerland--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Antisemitism--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- New York (State)
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps--Switzerland.
- Jewish refugees--Switzerland.
- South Carolina.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Antisemitism in education--Austria.
- Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Switzerland.
Genre
- Oral History
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