Interview with Walter Ziffer

Interview with Walter Ziffer

Antisemitism

Autobiography

Holocaust survivors

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Personal narratives

Jewish families

Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity

Theologians -- Interviews

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps

Walter Ziffer is interviewed by Alex Macaulay, Associate Professor of History at WCU. Ziffer talks about growing up in Czechoslovakia, his experiences with the Holocaust, and coming to America in 1947. He talks about his memoir, Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God, and includes several stories that are not found in the published version of the book. He also talks about the current political climate and its relationship to the past.

Ziffer, Walter, 1927-

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 2010s;

2017-09-15

Macaulay, Alexander, 1972-

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

personal narratives

eng

Sound

35877

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35877

2018-02-23

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Davidson County (Tenn.)

02:02:46 (sound recording)(duration)

21 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina