Oral history interview with Lori Shearn
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lori Shearn on January 10, 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
- Shearn, Lori.
- Lori Shearn
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- London (England)
- Antisemitism--Austria--Vienna.
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945--England.
- Jewish refugees--England.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Foster parents.
- Lightning war.
- Jews, Austrian--England.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
Genre
- Oral History
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