Oral history interview with Avraham Benesh
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Avraham Benesh in Israel on November 2, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, 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
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Benesh, Avraham, 1906-
- Avraham Benesh
- Edelstein, Jacob, -1944.
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Kaufering-Lager IV Hurlach (Concentration camp)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
- Allach (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
- Death march survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish refugees.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death marches.
- Moravia (Czech Republic)
- Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany)
- Jewish lawyers--Czech Republic.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Zionists.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- Typhoid fever.
Genre
- Oral History
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