Oral history interview with Hanna Cassel
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Gail Kurtz
- Sandra Bendayan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hanna Cassel on August 11, 1992 and September 1, 1992. 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
- Gail Kurtz
- Cassel, Hanna.
- Hanna Cassel
- Sandra Bendayan
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Italy.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Italy.
- Black market.
- Jews--Migrations.
- Casacalenda (Italy)
- Italy--History--1922-1945.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Jews, German--Italy.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Passing (Identity)--Italy.
- Nannies.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Bat mitzvah.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Antisemitism--United States.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jews--Italy--Rome.
- Rome (Italy)
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- Jews--Persecutions--Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Italy--Casacalenda.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism in education--Germany.
- Hiding places--Italy.
- Teachers.
- England.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Romanies.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral History
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