Oral history interview with Miriam Chervenka
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Miriam Chervenka in Israel on January 23, 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Chervenka, Miriam, 1924-
- Miriam Chervenka
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Zionists.
- Weddings.
- Star of David badges.
- Sisters.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Pohorelice (Jihomoravský kraj)
- Jewish youth--Czech Republic--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jewish councils--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Abortion.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Pohorelice (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
- Luhacovice (Czech Republic)
- Dušníky (Litoměřice, Czech Republic)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Giv'at Hayim (Israel)
- Brno (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral History