Oral history interview with Mary Kress
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Linda Kenyon
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project donated the interview with Mary Kress on April 11, 1983 conducted by the Holocaust Media Project at the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Linda Kenyon
- Kress, Mary.
- Mary Kress
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Death march survivors.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History