Oral history interview with Ruth Joseph

Identifier
irn517067
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.1007
  • RG-50.477.1007
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517067

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Creator(s)

  • Sandra Bendayan

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Joseph on May 2, 1996. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in November 2004.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

People

  • Joseph, Ruth--Interviews.
  • Ruth Joseph
  • Sandra Bendayan

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Jewish families--Poland.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Kielce (Poland)
  • Passing (identity)--Poland--20th century.
  • Pogroms--Poland--Kielce.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
  • Venezuela--Emigration and immigration.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.

Genre

  • Oral History
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