Oral history interview with Rafael Abarbanel and Rachel Abarbanel
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Rudy and Boyana Abarbanel in Israel on January 30, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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
- Abarbanel, Rachel Boyana, 1922-
- Rachel B. Abarbanel
- Abarbanel, Raphael, 1920-
- Rafael R. Abarbanel
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair
Subjects
- Durrës (Albania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Jewish youth--Serbia--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish families--Serbia.
- False certification--Albania.
- Belgrade (Serbia)
- Communists--Croatia.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Star of David badges.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Communist.
- World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Albania.
- Kavajë (Albania : Rrethi)
- Jews--Serbia--Pirot.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish refugees--Bulgaria.
- Skopje (Macedonia)
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Zionists.
- Jewish refugees--Italy--Bari.
- Jews--Yugoslavia.
- Zemun (Belgrade, Serbia)
- Forced labor.
- Niš (Serbia)
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Lom (Bulgaria)
- Pirot (Serbia)
- Concentration camp escapes--Albania.
- Bari (Italy)
- Guerrillas--Serbia.
- Slavonski Brod (Croatia)
- Guerrillas--Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.