Oral history interview with Nava Shan
Extent and Medium
3 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Nava Shan on December 2, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on August 31, 2001.
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
- Shan, Nava.
- Schorsch, Gustav, 1918-1945.
- Gerron, Kurt, 1897-1944.
- Nava Shan
Corporate Bodies
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Hechalutz (Organization)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Interfaith dating.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Theater and youth.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Actresses.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Holocaust survivors' writings.
- Children's theater.
- Zionists.
- Concentration camp theater.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish theater.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Theatrical producers and directors.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Mothers and daughters.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Identification (Religion)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Sisters.
- Prison theater.
Genre
- Oral History
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