Oral history interview with Irene Schmied
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Michael Oliver
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irene Schmied on October 24, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in March 2005.
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
- Irene Schmied
- Michael Oliver
- Schmied, Irene.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Governesses.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- England.
- Teachers.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish refugees--England.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Chile--Emigration and immigration.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
- Boarding schools--England.
- Santiago (Chile)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Eschwege (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--England.
Genre
- Oral History
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