Oral history interview with Morris Wiwierski and Clara Wiwierski
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Morris and Clara Wiwierski on April 12, 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
- Clara Wiwierski
- Wiwierski, Morris.
- Wiwierski, Clara.
- Morris Wiwierski
Corporate Bodies
- Czestochowa (Concentration camp)
- Israel. Army
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Winnipeg (Man.)
- Łask (Poland)
- Faith (Judaism)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Lódz.
- Typhoid fever.
- Forced labor.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Poland--Lask.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Haifa (Israel)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Ukraine.
- Passing (Identity)
- Canada--Emigration and immigration.
- Lódz (Poland)
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Stara Ushytsia (Ukraine)
- Lublin (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History
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