Oral history interview with Barbara Marton Farkas
Rozmiary i nośnik
3 sound cassettes 60 min. analog.
Przejęcie
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conducted the oral history interview with Barbara Marton Farkas on December 9, 1995.
Zakres i treść
Barbara Marton Farkas, born in 1920, describes being sent to Sweden by the International Committee of the Red Cross after her liberation on May 3, 1943; her long recovery time in quarantine; her work for a few years in a clothing factory; returning to Romania to attend university; her studies in an industrial pharmacy from 1946 to 1951; her work as a biochemist in a hospital in Arad, Israel; her move to Israel in 1962 after a 10 year wait for a passport; terrorist attacks in Israel in 1967 and the assault on Jerusalem; her move to the United States in 1968; and her support for the mission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Uwaga(-i)
Record type: Oral History
EMU Classification: sound recording
Osoby
- Farkas, Barbara Marton, 1920-
Ciała zbiorowe
Tematy
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967.
- Jewish refugees--Sweden.
- Jews--Romania.
Miejsca
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Romania.
- Sweden.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.