Oral history interview with Ruth Finkelstein
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Amud Aish Memorial Museum's Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, produced the interview with Ruth Finkelstein on August 6, 2013.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
This testimony was recorded through a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Amud Aish Memorial Museum Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center.
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
- Chevrier, Fèlix.
- Ms. Ruth Finkelstein
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
- Finkelstein, Ruth.
Corporate Bodies
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- World Union OSE
- Château de Chabannes (Orphanage)
Subjects
- Child concentration camp inmates--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France--Chabannes (Creuse)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Hiding places--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Sabbath.
- France
- Chabannes (Creuse, France)
- Gurs (France)
- Pneumonia.
- Antisemitism in education--Germany.
- Antisemitism--Germany--Mannheim.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Mannheim (Germany)
- Jewish orphans.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Vichy (France)
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Jews--Germany--Mannheim.
Genre
- Oral History