Oral history interview with Karl Lyon
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Karl Lyon on February 26, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in November 2004.
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
- Lyon, Karl.
- Karl Lyon
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
- Jewish refugees--Cuba.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
- Jewish lawyers.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Kansas City (Mo.)
- Jews--Germany--Bühl (Rastatt)
- Bühl (Rastatt, Germany)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History
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