Oral history interview with Mayer Hersh

Identifier
irn510825
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1285.17
  • RG-50.149.0017
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn510825

Extent and Medium

3 sound cassettes (90 min.),

Biographical History

The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Mayer Hersh from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.

Archival History

Imperial War Museum

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.

People

  • Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
  • Mayer Hersh
  • Hersh, Mayer, 1926-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Sonderkommandos.
  • Windermere (England)
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Railroad construction workers.
  • Romanies--Crimes against--Poland.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Antisemitism--Poland.
  • Poland--Ethnic relations.
  • Jews--Poland--Sieradz.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
  • Gotha (Germany)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
  • Soldiers--Germany.
  • Sieradz (Poland)
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
  • Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  • Concentration camp guards.
  • Rationing.
  • Shooting (Execution)--Poland.
  • Holocaust survivors--Great Britain.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
  • Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • Roll calls.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
  • Stuttgart (Germany)
  • Kapos.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
  • Jewish children--Poland--Sieradz.
  • Jewish families--Poland--Sieradz.
  • Death marches.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

  • Oral History
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