Overview
- Interview Summary
- Ignatz Akerman (né Rosenberg) and Karl Sheffer discuss their lives in the former Soviet Union prior to, during, and after WWII.
- Interviewee
- Ignatz Akerman
Karl Sheffer - Interviewer
- Gabriel Sheffer
- Date
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interview:
2005 May 24
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gabriel Sheffer
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 digital file : MPEG-4.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives. Antisemitism--Hungary. Jews--Hungary--Budapest. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Geographic Name
- Budapest (Hungary) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Uzhhorod (Ukraine) Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine)
- Personal Name
- Akerman, Ignatz Rosenberg. Sheffer, Karl.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Nyilaskeresztes Párt.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Gabriel Sheffer donated his interview with his grandfathers Ignatz Akerman and Karl Sheffer to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2020.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:05:07
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