Oral history interview with Irving Schaffer
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Mira Hodos
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on October 19, 1993.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Schaffer, Irving, 1928-
- Mira Hodos
- Irving Schaffer
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jews--Ukraine--Khust.
- Jews--Education--Czechoslovakia.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Khust.
- Jewish councils--Ukraine--Khust.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- Escapes.
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Khust (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral History
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