Oral history interview with Ernest Pollak and Ilse Pollak
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois (now Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center) conducted the interview with Ernest and Ilse Pollak on January 8, 1987. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the tape of the interview from the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois on December 12, 1989.
Archival History
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Pollak, Ilse, 1923-
- Pollak, Ernest, 1919-
- Ernest Pollak
- Ilse Pollak
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Vienna (Austria)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Cologne.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates--Correspondence.
- Children of interfaith marriage.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Anti-Jewish boycotts.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
- Netherlands.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- France.
- England.
- Cologne (Germany)
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
Genre
- Oral History