Oral history interview with Ruth Weiss
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Marci Jenkins
- Sandra Bendayan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Weiss on May 14, 1993 and July 22, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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
- Ruth Weiss
- Sandra Bendayan
- Weiss, Ruth, 1928-
- Marci Jenkins
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Vienna (Austria)
- World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jews--Migrations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Austria--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--United States.
- Orphanages.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Poets.
- Jews, German--Austria--Vienna.
Genre
- Oral History
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