Oral history interview with Bernard Wiss and Betty Wiss
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Bernard and Betty Wiss on April 11, 1983. 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
- Bernard Wiss
- Wiss, Betty.
- Wiss, Bernard, 1919-
- Betty Wiss
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Belleville (N.J.)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Russia (Federation)--Komi.
- Black market--Uzbekistan--Bukhoro.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Śródmieście (Warsaw, Poland)
- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Jews, Polish.
- Szczecin (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Uzbekistan.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Forced labor.
- Bukhoro (Uzbekistan)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Komi (Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Malaria.
- Newark (N.J.)
- Bialystok (Poland)
- New York (N.Y.)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Antisemitism.
Genre
- Oral History
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