Oral history interview with Helen Farkas

Identifier
irn511715
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.402
  • RG-50.477.0402
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511715

Extent and Medium

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

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Helen Farkas on November 14, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

People

  • Farkas, Helen, 1920---Interviews.
  • Mengele , Josef, 1911-1979.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Satu Mare (Satu Mare, Romania)
  • Jewish women--Romania.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Jewish families--Romania.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jewish ghettos--Hungary.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Romania.
  • Refugee camps--Europe.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Death marches--Europe.

Genre

  • Oral History
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