Oral history interview with Shimon Hamel
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shimon Hamel in Israel on June 20, 1993, 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 February1995.
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
- Frederic Hammel
- Hammel, Frédéric Chimon.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--France.
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- Jews--France--Strasbourg.
- Jewish youth--France--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Collective farms--Israel.
- Antisemitism--France.
- Strasbourg (France)
- Lyon (France)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Scouts (Youth organization members)--France.
Genre
- Oral History
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