Oral history interview with Shony Braun
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 Shony Braun on March 9, 1992, in Los Angeles, Calif., 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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 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 Reproduction
Restrictions on use. The interviewee restricts the use of the interview, in all formats, to educational purposes.
People
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
- Braun, Shony Alex.
- Sandra Bradley
- Shony A. Braun
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Kochendorf (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Struthof (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
- Violinists.
- Kapos--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Violin music.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Weapons industry--France.
- Salt mines and mining--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Gas chambers--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Concentration camp guards--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Chest--Wounds and injuries.
- Composers.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Germany.
- France.
- Sabotage--France.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History