Oral history interview with Irene 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
- Weiss, Irene Fogel, 1930-
- Irene Fogel Weiss
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Batrad' (Ukraine)
- Jewish orphans.
- Antisemitism.
- Jews--Ukraine--Batrad'.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Hungarians--Czechoslovakia.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Poland.
- Forced labor.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Sisters.
- Germany.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Death march survivors.
- Death marches.
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Jewish families.
Genre
- Oral History
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