Oral history interview with Shalom Kooper
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shalom Kooper in Israel on August 20, 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
- Shalom Kooper
- Huberman, Itzchak, 1929-
- Kooper, Shalom, 1918-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Zionists.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Songs and music.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Łódź.
- War crime trials.
- Strikes and lockouts--Poland--Łódź.
- Orphanages--Poland--Łódź.
- Starvation--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish teachers--Sweden.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Jewish youth--Poland--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish teachers--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish children--Crimes against--Poland.
- Identification (Religion)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Communists--Poland--Łódź.
- Wöbbelin (Germany)
- Sweden.
- Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Poland.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Braunschweig (Germany)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Genre
- Oral History
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