Oral history interview with Walter Balaban

Identifier
irn508364
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.203
  • RG-50.477.0203
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508364

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Creator(s)

  • Sandra Bendayan

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Balaban on August 8, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

People

  • Sandra Bendayan
  • Balaban, Walter--Interviews.

Corporate Bodies

  • HIAS (Agency)

Subjects

  • Refugee camps--Switzerland.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Switzerland.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Jewish refugees--Switzerland.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jewish families--Austria.
  • Vienna (Austria)

Genre

  • Oral History
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