Oral history interview with Willie Nowak
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Willie Nowak in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 9, 1983. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on September 22, 1998.
Archival History
Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Nowak, Willie.
- Willie Nowak
Subjects
- China--Ethnic relations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--China--Shanghai.
- Jews--China--Shanghai.
- Jews, Austrian--Germany--Berlin.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Brno (Czech Republic)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Shanghai (China)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Jewish youth--Germany--Societies and clubs.
- Refugee camps--China--Shanghai.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Romania--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
Genre
- Oral History
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