Oral history interview with Sol Farkas
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sol Farkas on April 21, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tape of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in August 1999.
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
- Sol Farkas
- Farkas, Sol.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Hungary. Honvédség
Subjects
- Jewish soldiers--Hungary.
- Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish ghettos--Romania--Satu Mare (Satu Mare)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.
- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Jews--Romania--Satu Mare (Satu Mare)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jewish families--Hungary.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Satu Mare (Satu Mare, Romania)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Romania--History--1914-1944.
Genre
- Oral History
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