Oral history interview with Irene Weiss

Identifier
irn706930
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-50.999.0666
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn706930

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

  • Irene Fogel Weiss
  • Weiss, Irene Fogel, 1930-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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

Genre

  • Oral History
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