Oral history interview with Iosef Shapira
Extent and Medium
17 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Iosef Shapira in Israel 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, Iosef, 1930-
- Iosef Shapira
Subjects
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Cyprus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Warsaw.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Smuggling--Poland--Warsaw.
- Smugglers--Poland--Warsaw.
- Theft--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish youth--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish refugees--Cyprus.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Cigarette industry--Poland--Warsaw.
- Black market--Poland--Warsaw.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- France.
- Germany.
- Cyprus.
Genre
- Oral History
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