Oral history interview with Aby Hervy

Identifier
irn509559
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.321
  • RG-50.477.0321
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509559

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Creator(s)

  • Peter Ryan

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Aby Hervy on September 1, 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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

  • Aby Hervy
  • Hervy, Aby.
  • Peter Ryan

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Estonia.
  • Estonia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Death marches.
  • Riga (Latvia)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Sztutowo (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
  • Montreal (Quebec)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Kapos.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jews, Estonian--Latvia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
  • Liepaja (Latvia)
  • Tallinn (Estonia)
  • Tartu (Estonia)
  • Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Jewish refugees--Sweden.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
  • Jews--Estonia--Tartu.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Latvia.
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Lärbro (Sweden)
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • California.
  • Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Liepaja.
  • Antisemitism--Estonia.
  • Death march survivors.

Genre

  • Oral History
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