Oral history interview with Joseph Schein

Identifier
irn513098
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.580
  • RG-50.477.0580
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513098

Extent and Medium

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

Creator(s)

  • Peggy Coster

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Joseph Schein on December 17, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 2003.

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

  • Schein, Joseph.
  • Peggy Coster

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Forced labor--Poland.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Human experimentation in medicine--Poland.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Forced labor--Germany.
  • Jewish families--Poland.
  • Antisemitism--Poland.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
  • Sosnowiec (Wojewodztwo Slaskie, Poland)
  • Refugee camps--Germany.

Genre

  • Oral History
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