Oral history interview with Irene Weiss

Identifier
irn598672
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-50.999.0559
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn598672

Extent and Medium

1 digital file, MOV

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

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Jewish families.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Batrad'.
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
  • Germany.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Child concentration camp inmates.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Women.
  • Teplice (Czech Republic)
  • Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
  • Batrad' (Ukraine)
  • Poland.
  • Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Death marches.
  • Jewish orphans.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
  • Forced labor.
  • Sisters.
  • Hungarians--Czechoslovakia.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Mukacheve (Ukraine)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Children.

Genre

  • Oral History
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