Oral history interview with Machislav Gurvich
Extent and Medium
6 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Machislav Gurvich in Israel on November 28, 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
- Machislav Gurvich
- Gurvich, Machislav.
- Göth, Amon, 1908-1946.
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Litoměřice (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Smuggling--Poland.
- Litoměřice (Czech Republic)
- War crime trials--Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Passing (Identity)--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Mass murder--Poland--Kraków.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Hanging--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--Kraków.
- Dresden (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps.
- Fathers and sons.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Dresden.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
Genre
- Oral History