Oral history interview with Bernhard Witkop

Identifier
irn511578
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0095.95
  • RG-50.163.0095
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511578

Extent and Medium

3 sound cassettes (60 min.),

Creator(s)

  • Gail Schwartz

Biographical History

The interview with Bernhard Witkop was conducted on May 30, 1989 as part of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington's oral history project to document Washington, DC area survivor's experiences of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview on May 26, 1993.

Archival History

Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Bernhard Witkop
  • Gail Schwartz
  • Witkop, Bernhard, 1917-
  • Wieland, H. (Heinrich), 1877-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ernie Pyle (Ship)

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
  • Antisemitism--Germany.
  • Belief and doubt.
  • Refugee camps--Germany--Bremen.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
  • Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
  • Bremen (Germany)
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • College teachers--Germany.
  • College teachers--United States.
  • Freising (Germany)
  • Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
  • Japan.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Germany.
  • Munich (Germany)
  • College teachers--Japan.
  • Agnosticism.
  • Jews--Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • Children of interfaith marriage.

Genre

  • Oral History
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