Oral history interview with Helen Farkas
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Helen Farkas on September 13, 1990, November 14, 1990, and December 20, 1990. 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
- Farkas, Helen, 1920-
- Helen Farkas
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Linz (Austria)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Sisters.
- Refugee camps--Europe.
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
- Death marches.
- Jewish women--Romania.
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish ghettos--Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Romania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Satu Mare (Satu Mare, Romania)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jews--Romania--Satu Mare (Satu Mare)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching.
- Escapes.
- Jewish families--Romania.
- Refugee camps--Austria--Linz.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Hungary.
- Holocaust survivors' writings.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
Genre
- Oral History