Oral history interview with Samuel Willenberg
Extent and Medium
8 digital files, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Nathan Beyrak
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Samuel Willenberg in Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on March 1, 1995, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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
- Samuel Willenberg
- Nathan Beyrak
- Willenberg, Samuel, 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- Poland. Polish Armed Forces
- Anders' Army (Polish 2nd Corps)
Subjects
- Treblinka (Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Czestochowa.
- Opatów (Poland)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Kovel' (Ukraine)
- Patriotic music.
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Concentration camp guards--Poland.
- Poland--Armed Forces.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Poland.
- Hiding places--Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Uprisings
- Concentration camp inmates as guards.
- Concentration camps--Songs and music.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
- False certification--Poland.
- Forced labor--Poland--Treblinka.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Radość (Warsaw, Poland)
- Zionists--Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Opatów.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Poland.
- Concentration camp guards--Ukraine.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History