Oral history interview with Celine Volkas
Extent and Medium
11 sound recording, WAV
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Celine Volkas on October 11 and 27, 1977. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2013.
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
Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
People
- Celine Volkas
- Volkas, Celine, 1912-1992.
Corporate Bodies
- Drancy (Internament camp)
- Vélodrome d'hiver (Paris, France)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Front national (France : 1941-1945)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Jewish women--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Jews--France--Paris.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Jews, Polish--France.
- Poland.
- Paris (France)
- Leipzig (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France.
- Jewish families--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.
- Escapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--France.
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History