Oral history interview with Ernst Valfer
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peter Ryan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ernst Valfer on September 5, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 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
- Peter Ryan
- Ernst Valfer
- Valfer, Ernst.
Corporate Bodies
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- United States. Army
- World Union OSE
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Paris (France)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--France.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Rhine River Valley.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Orphanages--France--Limousin.
- Sabbath.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--France.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Denazification--Germany.
- Munich (Germany)
- France, Southern.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- France
- Limousin (France)
- Jews, German--France.
Genre
- Oral History
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