Oral history interview with Helen Balsam
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project conducted the interview with Helen Balsam in Bronx, NY on March 15, 1992.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Balsam, Helen, 1927-
- Helen Balsam
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Bedzin (Poland)
- Refugee camps--Austria--Hirschegg.
- Austria.
- Interfaith marriage.
- Gunskirchen (Austria)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Jews--Poland--Bedzin.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Dysentery.
- Hirschegg (Austria)
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bedzin.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jelenia Gora (Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Death march survivors.
- Textile workers.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
Genre
- Oral History
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