Oral history interview with Chaim Hamer
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chaim Hamer in Israel on July 3, 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
- Chaim Hamer
- Hamer, Chaim, 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Peciora (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Sovetskaia Armiia
Subjects
- Riga (Latvia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish youth--Belarus--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish councils--Belarus--Mahiliou.
- Smolensk (Russia)
- Torchyn (Luts'kyi raion, Ukraine)
- Dniester River (Ukraine and Moldova)
- Mahiliou (Belarus)
- Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Orphans.
- Zionists.
- Israel.
- Bucharest (Romania)
Genre
- Oral History
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