Oral history interview with Aleksandr Belfor
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Aleksandr Belfor on May 6, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tape of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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
- Mr. Aleksandr Belfor
- Belfor, Aleksandr, 1923-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Soviet Union.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)
- Chisinau (Moldova)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Kazakhstan--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish soldiers--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Moldova--Chisinau.
Genre
- Oral History
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