Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Mrs. Toby Back
Biographical History
Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
Archival History
Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Klein, Kurt, 1920-
- Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
- Mrs. Toby Back
- Gerda W. Klein
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- War brides.
- Tuberculosis.
- Textile workers.
- Star of David badges.
- Jews--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- Quarries and quarrying.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Death march survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- France.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History