Oral history interview with Otto Presburger

Identifier
irn503285
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.341
  • RG-50.120.0341
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503285

Extent and Medium

11 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Otto Presburger in Israel on April 1, 1998. 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

  • Presburger, Otto, 1923-
  • Otto Presburger

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Poland.
  • Forced labor.
  • Road construction industry.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Antisemitism--Slovakia--Trnava.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
  • Trnava (Slovakia)
  • Israel.
  • Litomerice (Czech Republic)
  • Trencín (Slovakia)
  • Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
  • Kapos.
  • Concentration camp escapes.
  • ‘Atlit (Israel)
  • Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
  • Tel Aviv (Israel)
  • Construction workers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
  • Jews--Slovakia--Trnava.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Czechoslovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Jewish ghettos--Slovakia--Trnava.
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
  • Hradec Králové (Czech Republic)

Genre

  • Oral History
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