Oral history interview with Joan Kris
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peter Ryan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Joan (Hannalore) Kris on January 30, 2002. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in September 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
- Kris, Joan.
- Peter Ryan
- Joan Kris
Subjects
- Jews, German--China.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Olympic Games (11th: 1936: Berlin, Germany)
- Ocean travel.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Shanghai (China)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jewish families--China--Shanghai.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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