Oral history interview with Sonja Samson
Extent and Medium
5 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Sonja Samson in Philadelphia, Pa., on June 3, 1985 and August 4, 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College in August 2003.
Archival History
Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Sonja Samson
- Samson, Sonja, 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Rivesaltes (Concentration camp)
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner)
- World Hashomer Hatzair
- World Union OSE
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Union générale des israélites de France.
Subjects
- Passing (Identity)
- Palavas-les-Flots (France)
- Jews--Germany--Aurich.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- Paris (France)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Boarding schools--France--Chambéry.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- France
- Israel.
- Garlin (France)
- Sweden.
- Gurs (France)
- Aurich (Lower Saxony, Germany)
- Orphanages--France--Palavas-les-Flots.
- Convents--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews, German--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Hiding places--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Zionists.
- Chambéry (France)
Genre
- Oral History
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