Oral history interview with Itzchak Shverzentz
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Itzchak Shverzentz in Israel on October 9,1992, 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. inFebruary 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
- Itzchak Shverzentz
- Shverzentz, Itzchak, 1915-
- Sereni, Enzo, 1905-1944.
Subjects
- Berlin (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Zurich (Switzerland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching.
- Scouts (Youth organization members)--Germany.
- Children -- Humanitarian assistance -- Associations, institutions, etc
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish orphans.
- Escapes.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Refugee children.
- Jewish youth--Germany--Societies and clubs.
- Passing (Identity)--Germany.
- Refugee camps.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Teachers--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History
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