Oral history interview with George Vida

Identifier
irn87735
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0122.1806
  • RG-50.477.1806
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn87735

Extent and Medium

2 sound recording, WAV

Biographical History

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with George Vida on September 29, 1980. 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

  • Rabbi George Vida
  • Vida, George, 1906-1989.

Corporate Bodies

  • Bensheim (Displaced persons camp)
  • Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • United States. Army

Subjects

  • Jews--Hungary--Csongrád (Csongrád Megye)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Anti-Nazi movement--Czechoslovakia.
  • Rabbis--Czech Republic--Jablonec nad Nisou.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jablonec nad Nisou (Czech Republic)
  • Rabbinical seminaries.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Authors.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  • Sudetenland (Czech Republic)
  • Bensheim (Germany)
  • Jewish soldiers--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
  • Rabbis--Personal narratives.
  • Czech Republic--History--1938-1945.
  • Wroclaw (Poland)
  • Refugee camps--Germany.
  • Chaplains
  • Csongrád (Csongrád Megye, Hungary)
  • Jewish refugees--Germany.
  • Jewish refugees--United States.

Genre

  • Oral History
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