Oral history interview with John Polt
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Simon Levine
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with John Polt on July 18, 1996. 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
- Simon Levine
- John Polt
- Polt, John, 1929-
Subjects
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Czechoslovakia.
- Jewish refugees--Switzerland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Ústí nad Labem.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic)
- Switzerland--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Jewish refugees--Cuba.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
Genre
- Oral History
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