Oral history interview with George Schwab
Extent and Medium
12 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Joan Ringelheim
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with George Schwab on March 18, 2005. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in April 2005.
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
- Schwab, George, 1931-
- Joan Ringelheim
- Dr. George D. Schwab Ph.D.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Schlachtensee (Displaced persons camp)
- Kaiserwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Latvia.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- Jews--Latvia--Liepāja.
- Jewish refugees--Germany.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Liepāja.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Slupsk (Poland)
- Schlachtensee (Berlin, Germany)
- Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany)
- Liepāja (Latvia)
- Latvia--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History