Oral history interview with Walter Steirman
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Hilde Gattmann
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Steirman on May 29, 2001. 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
- Hilde Gattmann
- Steirman, Walter.
- Walter Steirman
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Subjects
- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Reinheim (Hesse, Germany)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jews, German--United States.
- Berlin (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Military interrogation--United States.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Germany--Reinheim (Hesse)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Translators.
Genre
- Oral History