Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein
Extent and Medium
4 film reels, color ; 16 mm
5 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
2 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 Gerda Weissmann Klein on March 13, 1992, in Scottsdale, Ariz., 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 film and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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
- Gerda W. Klein
- Sandra Bradley
- Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Bolkenhain (Concentration camp)
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
- Maerzdorf (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Looms.
- Flax--Harvesting.
- Forced labor.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Women concentration camp guards--Germany.
- Weavers.
- Menorah.
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Volary (Czech Republic)
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
Genre
- Oral History