Oral history interview with Manny Hirschel
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peter Ryan
- Elizabeth Ryan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Manny Hirschel on April 29, 1998. 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
Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
People
- Manny Hirschel
- Elizabeth Ryan
- Hirschel, Manny.
- Peter Ryan
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.
- Shanghai (China)
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History