Oral history interview with Bernard Zelkowitz
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peggy Coster
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Bernard Zelkowitz on February 28, 1989. 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
- Zelkowitz, Bernard.
- Bernard Zelkowitz
- Peggy Coster
Corporate Bodies
- Bunzlau I (Concentration camp)
- Israel. Army
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Czechoslovakia. Army
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Jewish soldiers--Israel.
- Israel--History--1948-1967.
- Jewish ghettos--Hungary.
- Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish soldiers--Czechoslovakia.
- Jews--Ukraine--Vyshkovo.
- Germany.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Poland.
- Vyshkovo (Ukraine)
- Forced labor.
Genre
- Oral History