Oral history interview with Blanche Porway
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, WAV
Creator(s)
- Gail Schwartz
Biographical History
Gail Schwartz, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Blanche Porway on May 20, 2016 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
- Porway, Blanche, 1925-
- Gail Schwartz
- Blanche Porway
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Starvation.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Star of David badges.
- Sisters.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Jews--Education--Poland.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish families.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust survivors--Psychology.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Aircraft industry.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Munich (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Flossenbürg (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History
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