Oral history interview with Hanna Zeidler-Cowan
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 Hanna Zeidler-Cowan on September 3, 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
- Peter Ryan
- Elizabeth Ryan
- Hanna Zeidler-Cowan
- Zeidler-Cowan, Hanna.
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Shanghai (China)
- Jews, German--China--Shanghai.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- China--Emigration and immigration.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- London (England)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--China--Shanghai.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History
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