Oral history interview with Leah Hammerstein Silverstein
Extent and Medium
5 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Randy M. Goldman
Biographical History
Randy M. Goldman, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Leah Hammerstein Silverstein on May 22, 1996. This interview is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance.
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
Restrictions on use. One statement in the interview is not to be used in any publication or production, see release agreement for details.
People
- Silverstein, Leah, 1924-2014.
- Randy M. Goldman
- Leah H. Silverstein
Corporate Bodies
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Jewish Combat Organization (Poland)
- Poland. Polish Armed Forces
- World Hashomer Hatzair
Subjects
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Poland.
- Political parties.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Zionists.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--Poland.
- Women prisoners of war--Poland.
- Starvation--Poland.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Jewish youth--Poland--Societies and clubs.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Czestochowa.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Guerrilla couriers.
- Escapes.
- Poland
- Zarki (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie, Poland)
- Praga (Warsaw, Poland)
- Płaszów (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Brwinów (Poland)
- Uprisings.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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