Oral history interview with Irving Schaffer

Identifier
irn86291
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.1594
  • RG-50.477.1594
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn86291

Extent and Medium

1 sound recording, WAV

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irving Schaffer on June 15, 1981. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2013.

Acquisition

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

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

People

  • Schaffer, Irving.
  • Irving Schaffer

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Death march survivors.
  • Refugee camps--Germany.
  • Forced labor.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Meldorf (Germany)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Khust.
  • Feldafing (Germany)
  • Death marches.
  • World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (1981 : Jerusalem)
  • Khust (Ukraine)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.

Genre

  • Oral History
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