Oral history interview with Bernard Zelkowitz
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peggy Coster
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Bernard Zelkowitz on February 28, 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 2003.
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
- Peggy Coster
- Bernard Zelkowitz
- Zelkowitz, Bernard.
Corporate Bodies
- Israel. Army
- Czechoslovakia. Army
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Bunzlau I (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Forced labor.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Poland.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Jews--Ukraine--Vyshkovo.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.
- Israel--History--1948-1967.
- Jewish soldiers--Czechoslovakia.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish soldiers--Israel.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Vyshkovo (Ukraine)
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Jewish ghettos--Hungary.
Genre
- Oral History
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