Oral history interview with Martin Weiss
Extent and Medium
3 digital files, MP4
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
- Mr. Martin Weiss
- Weiss, Martin, 1929-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Death march survivors.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Forced labor.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Jewish families.
- Vel'ká Pol'ana (Slovakia)
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- Starvation.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Jews--Slovakia--Vel'ká Pol'ana.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
Genre
- Oral History