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