Oral history interview with Edith Gerda Boas
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peter Ryan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Edith Gerda Boas on March 3, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
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
- Boas, Edith Gerda.
- Edith G. Boas
- Peter Ryan
Subjects
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Berlin.
- Passing (Identity)--Germany.
- Jewish women--Germany--Berlin.
- Prisons--France.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Photographers--United States.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
Genre
- Oral History
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