Overview
- Interviewee
- Ralph Kornberg
- Date
-
interview:
1988 January
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Extent
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1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Personal Name
- Kornberg, Ralph.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
One Generation After
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The interview with Ralph Kornberg was conducted in January 1988, by One Generation After, a Boston-based group of children of Holocaust survivors, for the One Generation After oral history project. The copy of the interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 13, 1991
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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