Oral history interview with John Wahl
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with John Wahl on July 31, 1986. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- John R. Wahl
- Koch, Ilse, 1906-1967.
- Morell, Theodor Gilbert, 1886-1948.
- Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946.
- Wahl, John Rudolf, 1913-1993.
- Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987.
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 89th
Subjects
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- War crimes trials--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Madrid (Spain)
- Capri Island (Italy)
- War criminals--Germany.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish refugees--Cuba.
- Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
- Wuppertal (Germany)
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Paris (France)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Veterans--United States--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.)
- Naples (Italy)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Dusseldorf (Germany)
- Wounds and injuries.
- Translators.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Switzerland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Wuppertal.
- Dachau (Germany)
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Military interrogation--United States.
- Luxembourg.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Cuba.
- Jewish refugees--Switzerland.
- Spain.
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- Jewish refugees--Spain.
Genre
- Oral History
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