Oral history interview with Simcha Byalovitz
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Nathan Beyrak
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Simcha Byalovitz in Israel on May 13, 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
Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Interview cannot be used in publication without the consent of the interviewee or his/her heirs.
People
- Byalovitz, Simcha, 1912-
- Simcha Byalovitz
- Nathan Beyrak
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- War crime trials--Germany.
- Typhoid fever--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--Izbica.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp escapes--Poland.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Poland--Emigration and immigration.
- Heidenheim an der Brenz (Germany)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History