Oral history interview with Louise Birch
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Neenah Ellis
Biographical History
Neenah Ellis, on the behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Louise Birch on July 15, 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
- Ms. Louise Birch
- Neenah Ellis
- Birch, Louise, 1921-2005.
Corporate Bodies
- Queen Elizabeth (Ship)
- Gusen (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 34th
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 131st
Subjects
- Linz (Austria)
- V-J Day, 1945.
- England.
- World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Germany.
- Nurses--United States.
- Cleveland (Ohio)
- Germany.
- Military nursing--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- DDT (Insecticide)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- V-E Day, 1945.
- Passenger ships
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Military nursing--Germany.
- Fort Jackson (Columbia, S.C.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--England.
- France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Austria.
- Military nursing--England.
Genre
- Oral History