Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
Extent and Medium
2 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
- Weiss, Irene Fogel, 1930-
- Irene Fogel Weiss
Corporate Bodies
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Hungarians--Czechoslovakia.
- Sisters.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Batrad' (Ukraine)
- Jewish families.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Jewish orphans.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Antisemitism.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Death march survivors.
- Jews--Ukraine--Batrad'.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral History