Oral history interview with Eldar Berko
Extent and Medium
8 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Eldar Berko in Israel on December 18, 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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
- Berko, Eldar, 1924-
- Eldar Berko
Corporate Bodies
- Israel. Army
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Hlinka Guard (Czechoslovakia)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Betar
Subjects
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Sonderkommandos--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Crematoriums.
- Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
- Humenné (Slovakia)
- Schongau (Germany)
- Poland.
- Death marches.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Kapos.
- Death march survivors.
- Jews--Slovakia--Humenné.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Romanies.
- Hanging--Poland.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Electricians.
- Blockälteste.
- Construction workers.
Genre
- Oral History