Oral history interview with Martin Weiss
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, 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
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Mr. Martin Weiss
- Weiss, Martin, 1929-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Slovakia--Vel'ká Pol'ana.
- Slovakia--History--1918-1945.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Vel'ká Pol'ana (Slovakia)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Jewish families.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Death march survivors.
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Starvation.
Genre
- Oral History
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