Oral history interview with Cecile Kassow
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Joan Ringelheim
Biographical History
Joan Ringelheim donated her interview with Cecile Kassow to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on August 23, 2007. Dr. Ringelheim recorded the interview as part of her scholarly work on women and the Holocaust.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joan Ringelheim
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Cecile Kassow
- Fintel, Slava, 1930-2010.
- Joan Ringelheim
- Kassow, Cecile, 1923-1994.
Subjects
- Childbirth.
- Holocaust survivors--Mental health.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Abortion--Belarus.
- Czosnów (Poland)
- Jews--Sexual behavior.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus.
- Altruism--Belarus.
- Jews--Belarus--Sharkaŭshchyna.
- Women--Sexual behavior.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Sharkaŭshchyna (Belarus)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Prostitution--Belarus.
- Antisemitism.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Pastavy (Belarus)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Women guerrillas.
- Hiding places--Poland.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.
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