Oral history interview with Tusia Volansky
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Tusia Volansky on January 17, 1994 and January 27, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
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
- Volansky, Tusia, 1922-
- Tusia Volansky
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Poland--Lódz.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women concentration camp inmates--Sexual behavior.
- Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.
- Sexual abuse victims.
- Forced labor.
- Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Poland--History--1945-1980.
- Women concentration camp guards.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Lódz (Poland)
- Jewish women.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Meziměstí (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Lódz.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Concentration camp inmates--Psychological aspects.
- Hannover (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
Genre
- Oral History
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