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