Oral history interview with Frances Kornmehl

Identifier
irn511796
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.338.37
  • RG-50.037.0037
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511796

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 Frances Kornmehl 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

  • Kornmehl, Frances, 1925-
  • Mrs. Toby Back
  • Frances Kornmehl

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Textile workers.
  • Shooting (Execution)
  • Rationing.
  • Pogroms--Poland.
  • Mass murder--Poland.
  • Jews--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie)
  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Jewish refugees.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie)
  • Jewish children--Crimes against--Poland.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Concentration camp tattoos.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Burning (Execution)
  • Burial, Premature.
  • Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie, Poland)
  • Sudetenland (Czech Republic)
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Black market.
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Katowice (Poland)
  • Buffalo (N.Y.)

Genre

  • Oral History
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