Oral history interview with Karl Lyon
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Karl Lyon on February 26, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in November 2004.
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
- Lyon, Karl.
- Karl Lyon
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Germany--Bühl (Rastatt)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Kansas City (Mo.)
- Jewish lawyers.
- Bühl (Rastatt, Germany)
- Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Jewish refugees--Cuba.
Genre
- Oral History
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