Oral history interview with Ruth Kirby
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Neenah Ellis
Biographical History
Neenah Ellis, on the behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Ruth Kirby on July 14, 1995 in West Park, New York.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Kirby, Ruth.
- Neenah Ellis
- Ruth Kirby
Corporate Bodies
- Queen Elizabeth (Ship)
- United States. Army. Army, 3rd
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 131st
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Military nursing--Austria.
- DDT (Insecticide)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Mass burials--Austria.
- Germany.
- Glen Ridge (N.J.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Passenger ships
- France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--Great Britain.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Austria.
- Medical personnel
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Nurses--United States.
- Military nursing--Germany.
- Linz (Austria)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--England.
- Sulfonamides--Therapeutic use.
- Military nursing--England.
- Southampton (England)
Genre
- Oral History
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