Oral history interview with Sam Bankhalter
Extent and Medium
3 film reels, color ; 16 mm
5 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
2 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bradley
Biographical History
Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Sam Bankhalter on February 26, 1992, in Hallandale, Fla., in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the films and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-
- Bankhalter, Sam, 1926-
- Sandra Bradley
- Sam Bankhalter
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Łódź (Poland)
- Massacres--Germany--Buchenwald.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Priests.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Typhus fever.
- Romanies--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Rabbis.
- Nazis--Poland.
- Jews--Suicidal behavior.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Sonderkommandos.
- Crematoriums--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Suicide victims.
- Gas chambers--Poland--Oswiecim.
Genre
- Oral History