Oral history interview with Shlomo Shapira
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shlomo Shapira in Israel on June 21, 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
- Shapira, Shlomo, 1924-
- Shlomo Shapira
Corporate Bodies
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Carpenters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Passing (Identity)--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish youth--Germany--Societies and clubs.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Hiding places--Poland.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
- Escapes.
- Waldram (Germany)
- Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
- Typhoid fever.
Genre
- Oral History
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