Oral history interview with Ruth Meyerowitz
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (74 min.),
Creator(s)
- Ben Shapiro
Biographical History
Ben Shapiro, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Ruth Meyerowitz on September 23, 1998.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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. The interview may be used for scholastic (teaching) purposes but not for publication in book form or any way that would interfere with the interviewee's publication.
People
- Meyerowitz, Ruth Krautwirth, 1929-
- Ruth K. Meyerowitz
- Ben Shapiro
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Writers.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- German Americans.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History