Oral history interview with Sara Schwimmer
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Sara Schwimmer in Philadelphia, PA on April 22, 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on October 17, 2000.
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
- Schwimmer, Sara, 1926-
- Sara Schwimmer
Corporate Bodies
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Türkheim (Concentration camp)
- Burgau (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Burgau (Bavaria, Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Hungary.
- Marseille (France)
- Jews, Czech--Hungary.
- Jihlava (Czech Republic)
- Sisters.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Jihlava.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Türkheim (Bavaria, Germany)
- Zionists -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Hungary
- Fürstenberg (Germany)
- Hegyeshalom (Hungary)
- Graz (Austria)
- Zionists.
- Women dressmakers.
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
Genre
- Oral History
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