Oral history interview with Martin Weiss
Biographical History
This is an interview conducted for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program, a seasonal program that enables USHMM visitors to hear Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Weiss, Martin, 1929-
- Mr. Martin Weiss
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Death march survivors.
- Starvation.
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Death marches.
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
- Forced labor.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Jews--Slovakia--Vel'ká Pol'ana.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Vel'ká Pol'ana (Slovakia)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jewish families.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
Genre
- Oral History