Project Second Wave records

Identifier
irn539542
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.296.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn539542

Extent and Medium

boxes

44

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gerald Holton and Gerhard Sonnert

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Dr. Gerald Holton and Dr. Gerhard Sonnert.

Scope and Content

Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, completed questionnaires, and other related documents created and collected by Dr. Gerald Holton and Professor Gerhart Sonnert during "Project Second Wave," which documented the experiences of young refugees from Nazism who came to the United States and the lives and careers they built. Approximately 86 interviews were conducted for the project in 2003 and 2004.

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Child refugees--United States--Biography.

Genre

  • Document
  • Transcripts.
  • Questionnaires.
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