Overview
- Description
- Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, completed questionnaires, and other related documents created and collected by Dr. Gerald Holton and Professor Gerhart Sonnert during "Project Second Wave," which documented the experiences of young refugees from Nazism who came to the United States and the lives and careers they built. Approximately 86 interviews were conducted for the project in 2003 and 2004.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gerald Holton and Gerhard Sonnert
- Reference
- Holton, Gerald and Gerhard Sonnert. "What happened to the children who fled Nazi persecution," New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Questionnaires. Transcripts.
- Extent
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44 boxes
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- Privacy Restriction: The identity of the interviewee(s) may not be disclosed in any use of the interview(s) by outside parties or Museum staff. Researchers will be required to sign and date a researcher agreement before accessing the interviews.
- Conditions on Use
- Privacy Restriction: The identity of the interviewee(s) may not be disclosed in any use of the interview(s) by outside parties or Museum staff. Researchers will be required to sign and date a researcher agreement before accessing the interviews.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Child refugees--United States--Biography.
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Dr. Gerald Holton and Dr. Gerhard Sonnert.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:27:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn539542
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