Oral history interview with Yehoshua Shachar
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yehoshua Shachar in Israel in May 1991, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. 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
- Shachar, Yehoshua, 1925-
- Yehoshua Shachar
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Death march survivors.
- Kapos.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Vienna.
- Israel.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Egypt.
- Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
- Austria.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Hungary--Debrecen.
- Jews, Hungarian--Austria.
- Nitsanim (Israel)
- Debrecen (Hungary)
- Jewish refugees--Biography.
- Death marches.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Antisemitism--Hungary.
Genre
- Oral History
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