Oral history interview with Leo Weshler
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Hanna Silver
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Leo Weshler on December 1, 1992 and February 19, 1997. 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
- Weshler, Leo--Interviews.
- Leo Weshler
- Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
- Hanna Silver
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Shanghai (China)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral History
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