Oral history interview with Edith Schiftan
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Lorie Rice
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Edith Schiftan on January 11, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
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
- Edith Schiftan
- Schiftan, Edith.
- Lorie Rice
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Antisemitism--Austria.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Shanghai (China)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--China--Shanghai.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jews, Austrian--China--Shanghai.
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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