Overview
- Interviewee
- Emi de Sica
- Interviewer
- Kinga Júlia Király
- Date
-
interview:
2019 December 04
- Geography
-
creation:
Roma (Italy)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Physical Details
- Language
- Italian
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- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Italian.
- Geographic Name
- Rome (Italy)
- Personal Name
- de Sica, Emi.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust.
- Funding Note
- The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. - Special Collection
-
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:47:13
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