Oral history interview with Ernest Weihs
Extent and Medium
2 film reels, color ; 16 mm
2 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
1 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bradley
Biographical History
Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Ernest Weihs on January 29, 1992, in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the films and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Weihs, Ernst, 1908-
- Sandra Bradley
- Ernst Weihs
Corporate Bodies
- Kaufering (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Weddings--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
- Suicide--Germany--Kaufering.
- Missionaries--Austria--Vienna.
- Lutheran converts--Austria--Vienna.
- Kapos.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Kaufering (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History
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