Oral history interview with Selma Engel

Identifier
irn505564
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0447.10
  • RG-50.042.0010
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn505564

Extent and Medium

3 film reels, color ; 16 mm

4 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 Selma Engel on February 12, 1992, in Bradford, Conn., 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

  • Engel, Chaim, 1916-2003.
  • Engel, Selma, 1922-
  • Sandra Bradley
  • Ms. Selma S. Engel

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Concentration camp guards--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Westerbork (Netherlands)
  • Uprisings.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Sobibór.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from the Netherlands.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Ukrainians--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Sabotage--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Insurgency--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
  • Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
  • Hiding places--Poland.
  • Germans--Poland.
  • Gas chambers--Poland.
  • Forced labor.
  • Escapes--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Sobibór.
  • Zwolle (Netherlands)
  • Sobibór (Poland)
  • Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Genre

  • Oral History
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