Oral history interview with Alexandra Gorko
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Eileen Steinberg
Biographical History
The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Alexandra Gorko in Philadelphia, PA on August 19, 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on September 26, 1997.
Archival History
Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Ms. Alexandra Gorko
- Gorko, Alexandra, 1916-
- Eileen Steinberg
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Lower Saxony (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Nurses--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--Poland--Łódź.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Jews--Ukraine--Kyïv.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Sweden.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Poland.
- Jews, Ukrainian--Poland--Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Kyïv (Ukraine)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Pregnant women.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History
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