Oral history interview with Frances Hirshfeld
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Esther Finder
Biographical History
Esther Finder, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview with Frances Hirshfeld on September 30, 1996 in Chevy Chase, MD.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Hirshfeld, Frances, 1918-
- Esther Finder
- Frances Hirshfeld
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Poland--Zawiercie.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Typhoid fever.
- Scabies.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jews--Poland--Opatów.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland.
- Jewish families--Poland.
- Jewish councils.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust denial.
- Hiding places--Ukraine.
- Faith (Judaism)
- Death march survivors.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Germany.
- Zawiercie (Poland)
- Opatów (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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