Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette,
Biographical History
The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Irene Weiss for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
Archival History
Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Weiss, Irene, 1914-
- Irene Berger Weiss
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Gas chambers.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Ardanovce (Slovakia)
- Forced labor.
- Prisoner-of-war camps.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Trnava (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Holocaust survivors--Australia.
- Typhus fever.
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Passing (Identity)--Poland.
- Prenzlau (Germany)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Jews--Slovakia--Ardanovce.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Neustadt-Glewe (Germany)
- Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral History
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