Overview
- Interview Summary
- Consists of an oral history videocassette entitled, "When God Looked Down and Wept," featuring Alex Sharf. Mr. Sharf discusses anti-semitism in Germany in the 1930s and the beginning of the Final Solution. He discusses his childhood in Hungary, deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944 and subsequent transfer to Melk, a subcamp of Mauthausen, where he worked digging tunnels, into a mountain, which were to house a rocket-research facility
- Interviewee
- Alex Sharf
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..
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- No restrictions on access
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Men--Personal narratives.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Sabine Charbit donated the oral history to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on October 3, 2003. Alex Sharf was her neighbor. The collection was also donated with the permission of Fitchburg State College, which originally produced the film.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 20:11:45
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514345
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