Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana

Identifier
irn508372
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.211
  • RG-50.477.0211
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508372

Extent and Medium

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

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Nellie Cesana on December 3, 1993. 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

  • Nellie Cesana
  • Cesana, Nellie, 1935-

Subjects

  • Jewish children in the Holocaust--Personal narratives.
  • Escapes.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • Passing (identity)
  • Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration.
  • Antisemitism--Poland.
  • Farms--Germany.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)
  • Nurses--Israel.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Jewish families--Poland.
  • Wroclaw (Poland)
  • Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • California.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.

Genre

  • Oral History
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