Oral history interview with Ruth Wertheimes
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Rosalyn Manowitz
Biographical History
The interview with Ruth Wertheimes was conducted by Rosalyn Manowitz. Rosalyn Manowitz wrote an account of the experiences of survivors who were members of the Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation for distribution to its members. The interview was given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on October 13, 1993.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Wertheimes, Ruth, 1931-
- Ruth Wertheimes
- Rosalyn Manowitz
Corporate Bodies
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- World Union OSE
Subjects
- Gurs (France)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Convents--France.
- Jews--Education--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- France
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- Passing (Identity)--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--France.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish refugees--United States.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Hiding places--France.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Jews, Polish--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Germany.
- Americanization.
Genre
- Oral History
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