Oral history interview with Elka Farfel
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Elka Farfel in Israel on October 18, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Farfel, David, 1920-
- Elka Farfel
- Zorin, Shalom, 1902-1974.
- Farfel, Elka, 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- World Hashomer Hatzair
- Schlachtensee (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Resistance Groups (ushmm)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- Niasvizh (Belarus)
- Abortion.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Naliboki Forest (Belarus)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Belarus.
- Jews--Persecutions--Belarus.
- Navahrudak (Belarus)
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Escapes.
- Jewish councils--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Italy.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Mass murder--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Jews--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Hiding places--Belarus.
- Massacres--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Massacre survivors--Belarus.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- France.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Childbirth.
- Synagogues--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Niasvizh.
- Women guerrillas--Belarus.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Belarus
- Jewish refugees--Germany.
- Tempelhof (Berlin, Germany)
- Refugee camps--Germany--Berlin.
- Husband and wife.
- Germany.
- Forced labor.
- Massacres--Belarus--Minsk.
Genre
- Oral History