Oral history interview with Kurt Klein

Identifier
irn511794
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.338.35
  • RG-50.037.0035
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511794

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Creator(s)

  • Mrs. Toby Back

Biographical History

Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Kurt Klein on April 24, 1990, with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, N.Y. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch in February 1995.

Archival History

Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Klein, Kurt, 1920-
  • Mrs. Toby Back
  • Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
  • Kurt Klein

Corporate Bodies

  • United States. Army. Infantry Division, 5th

Subjects

  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
  • Nazi propaganda--Germany.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Jews, German--United States.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
  • Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
  • Jewish soldiers--United States.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Death marches.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
  • Anti-Jewish propaganda.
  • Anti-Jewish boycotts.
  • Walldorf (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
  • Volary (Czech Republic)
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Normandy (France)
  • France.
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.)

Genre

  • Oral History
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