Oral history interview with William Himmelfarb

Identifier
irn509137
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0125.55
  • RG-50.233.0055
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509137

Extent and Medium

2 sound cassettes (90 min.),

Creator(s)

  • Anthony DiIorio

Biographical History

Anthony Dilorio, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project, conducted the interview with William Himmelfarb in Bronx, NY on April 12, 1992.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • William Himmelfarb
  • Himmelfarb, William, 1927-
  • Anthony DiIorio

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Weapons industry.
  • Leipzig (Germany)
  • Skarzysko-Kamienna (Poland)
  • Koprzywnica (Poland)
  • Thuringia (Germany)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Quarries and quarrying.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Forced labor.
  • Road construction industry.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Windermere (England)
  • Jewish councils--Poland--Koprzywnica.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
  • Winchester (England)
  • Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
  • Concentration camp tattoos.
  • Czestochowa (Poland)
  • Antisemitism in education--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Jews--Poland--Koprzywnica.
  • Kapos.
  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
  • Korean War, 1950-1953--Veterans--United States.
  • Antisemitism--Poland.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.

Genre

  • Oral History
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