Oral history interview with Helena Hammershmash

Identifier
irn502710
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.61
  • RG-50.120.0061
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502710

Extent and Medium

11 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Helena Hammershmash in Israel on April 21,1991, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

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

  • Hammershmash, Helena.
  • Helena Hammershmash

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Hungary.
  • Pogroms--Ukraine--Turka (L'vivs'ka oblast')
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  • Concentration camp inmates' writings.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Death marches.
  • Zasole (Oświęcim, Poland)
  • Tokaj (Hungary)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
  • Refugee camps--Hungary.
  • Turka (L'vivs'ka oblast', Ukraine)
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Nurses.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
  • Poets.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Zionists.
  • Jewish families.
  • Israel.
  • Rome (Italy)
  • Yugoslavia.
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Turka (L'vivs'ka oblast')
  • Budapest (Hungary)
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Jewish refugees--Hungary.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Munich (Germany)
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel.
  • Oświęcim (Poland)
  • Hanging--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Jewish youth--Ukraine--Societies and clubs.

Genre

  • Oral History
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