Oral history interview with Sonja Samson
Extent and Medium
5 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Biographical History
The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Sonja Samson in Philadelphia, Pa., on June 3, 1985 and August 4, 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College in August 2003.
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
- Sonja Samson
- Samson, Sonja, 1931-
Corporate Bodies
- Rivesaltes (Concentration camp)
- Union générale des israélites de France.
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner)
- World Union OSE
- World Hashomer Hatzair
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- Passing (Identity)
- Hiding places--France.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews--Germany--Aurich.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- France
- Palavas-les-Flots (France)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Gurs (France)
- Sweden.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Israel.
- Jews, German--France.
- Garlin (France)
- Aurich (Lower Saxony, Germany)
- Orphanages--France--Palavas-les-Flots.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- Chambéry (France)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Paris (France)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Zionists.
- Boarding schools--France--Chambéry.
- Convents--France.
Genre
- Oral History
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