Oral history interviews of the Flight and Rescue collection

Identifier
irn507364
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Firstlight Pictures, a film production company contractor for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interviews from June to October 1999 in preparation for the exhibition, "Flight and Rescue." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interviews from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibitions Division on June 22,1999

Scope and Content

Contains oral history interviews with twenty Holocaust survivors and witnesses recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Flight and Rescue," which opened May 3, 2000. The interviewees discuss their experiences of their journey from Lithuania to Shanghai, China, via Japan

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.