Oral history interview with Walter Gelnay
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Gelnay on February 19, 2003. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 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
- Gelnay, Walter.
- Walter Gelnay
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Palestine.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- Haifa (Israel)
- Jewish refugees--Iraq.
- Jewish refugees--Lebanon.
- Beirut (Lebanon)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Baghdad (Iraq)
- Jewish businesspeople.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Lebanon--Beirut.
- Jews--Persecutions--Europe.
- Lebanon--History--French occupation, 1918-1946.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral History
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