Oral history interview with Helena Orchon
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Malka Drucker
- Gay Block
Biographical History
Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Helena Orchon on February 17, 1988 for their book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," Holmes & Meier, 1992, as well as their documentary film "They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch received the tapes of the interviews from Malka Drucker and Gay Block in March 1989.
Archival History
Gay Block
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Malka Drucker
- Gay Block
- Helena Orchon
- Orchon, Helena, 1903-1998.
Corporate Bodies
- Polska Partia Socjalistyczna
- Voice of America (Organization)
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Smuggling--Poland--Warsaw.
- Prisons--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Interfaith marriage.
- Actresses.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- England.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Political prisoners--Poland.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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