Oral history interview with John Horak
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes,
Biographical History
The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with John Horak on April 2, 1990 for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
Archival History
Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- John Horak
- Horak, John, 1919-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish soldiers--Soviet Union.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Czechoslovakia.
- Trenčianské Teplice (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Malé Bedzany (Slovakia)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Slovakia--Trenčianské Teplice.
- Žilina (Slovakia)
- Holocaust survivors--Australia--Interviews.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Hiding places--Czechoslovakia.
- Passing (Identity)
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Czechoslovakia.
- Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)
Genre
- Oral History
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