Oral history interview with Esther Schkurman
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
Peter Wortsman conducted the interview with Esther Schkurman on February 23, 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on September 9, 2003.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Esther Schkurman
- Schkurman, Esther, 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Hrodna (Belarus)
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Jews--Poland--Hrodna.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Prisoners--Abuse of.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Belarus.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Smuggling.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History