Oral history interview with Eric Willgott
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Hilde Gattmann
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Eric Willgott on December 13, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2000.
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
- Eric Willgott
- Hilde Gattmann
- Willgott, Eric.
Subjects
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Jewish youth--Austria--Societies and clubs.
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
- London (England)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--England.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Lightning war.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jewish refugees--England.
- Zionists.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jews, Austrian--England.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral History
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