Oral history interview with Max Drimmer and Herman Shine

Identifier
irn511712
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.399
  • RG-50.477.0399
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511712

Extent and Medium

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

Creator(s)

  • Lorene Wilk
  • Judy Wellisch
  • Jane Goldman
  • Anne Feibelman

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Max Drimmer and Herman Shine on November 15, 1989, April 1990, and January 15, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.

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

  • Wrona, Joseph.
  • Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
  • Max Drimmer
  • Herman Shine
  • Anne Feibelman
  • Drimmer, Max.
  • Judy Wellisch
  • Shine, Herman.
  • Jane Goldman
  • Lorene Wilk

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Hiding places--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Hiding places--Poland--Gliwice.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Construction workers--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
  • Oświęcim (Poland)
  • Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Germany--Oranienburg.
  • Hiding places--Poland--Nowa Wieś (Oświęcim)
  • Oranienburg (Germany)
  • Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Gliwice (Poland)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Crematoriums.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
  • Forced labor.
  • Friendship.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • Nowa Wieś (Oświęcim, Poland)

Genre

  • Oral History
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