Oral history interview with Irving Altus

Identifier
irn513746
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-50.232.0003
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513746

Extent and Medium

2 sound cassettes, analog

Creator(s)

  • Bernie Kent

Biographical History

The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Irving Altus June 2, 1982. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992

Archival History

University of Michigan-Dearborn

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Irving Altus
  • Altus, Irving, 1920-
  • Bernie Kent

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
  • Czekanów (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Antisemitism.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • Albany (N.Y.)
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Detroit (Mich.)
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
  • Jews--Poland--Czekanów (Województwo Mazowieckie)
  • Concentration camp guards.
  • Königsberg (Germany)
  • Forced labor.
  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Zionists.

Genre

  • Oral History
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