Oral history interview with Ruth Plainfield
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Plainfield on April 7, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 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
- Plainfield, Ruth.
- Ruth Plainfield
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Gau-Bickelheim (Germany)
- Jews--Migrations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Jews--Germany--Gau-Bickelheim.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral History
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