Oral history interview with Irving Schaffer
Extent and Medium
1 sound recording, WAV
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irving Schaffer on June 15, 1981. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2013.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Schaffer, Irving.
- Irving Schaffer
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
- Landeshut (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Meldorf (Germany)
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (1981 : Jerusalem)
- Feldafing (Germany)
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Jews--Ukraine--Khust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History