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
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Jewish families.
- Forced labor.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Starvation.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
- Death march survivors.
- Vel'ká Pol'ana (Slovakia)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Slovakia--Vel'ká Pol'ana.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
Genre
- Oral History