Oral history interview with Walter Steirman
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Hilde Gattmann
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Steirman on May 29, 2001. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2001.
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
- Walter Steirman
- Steirman, Walter.
- Hilde Gattmann
Corporate Bodies
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- United States. Army
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Reinheim (Hesse, Germany)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Translators.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Jews--Germany--Reinheim (Hesse)
- Jews, German--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Military interrogation--United States.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
Genre
- Oral History
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