Oral history interview with Ruth Cohen
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ruth Cohen in Israel on August 25, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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
- Ms. Ruth Cohen
- Goeth, Amon Leopold, 1908-1946.
- Cohen, Ruth, 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Türkheim (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Czestochowa (Concentration camp)
- Burgau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Forced labor.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Burgau (Bavaria, Germany)
- Starvation.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Kraków.
- Childbirth.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--Kraków.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Israel.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Weapons industry.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Lower Saxony (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Türkheim (Bavaria, Germany)
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
Genre
- Oral History
- Music.