Oral history interview with Walter Austerer
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Ellen Szakal
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Austerer on March 14, 1996. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in September 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
- Austerer, Walter.
- Ellen Szakal
- Walter Austerer
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Vienna (Austria)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Jewish refugees--England.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
- Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Lancashire (England)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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