Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 08, Hella Weiss

Identifier
urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-f4qs-it
Language of Description
Dutch
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1983 - 31 Dec 1984, 29 Jun 2012
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • Jules Schelvis

Scope and Content

Interview with Hella Weiss (née Felenbaum; Lublin 25 November 1924). Weiss arrived in Sobibor just before Christmas in a horse-drawn cart. She worked in the laundry, had to knit socks and gloves and she tended to the flower garden. About her time in the camp she remembers: "They tormented us terribly". After her escape she fought with the partisans and in the Soviet army. She received six decorations, including the 'Red Star'. An injury landed her in a field hospital. After the war she married a Czech man with whom she ran a wayside restaurant in Israel. Hella Weiss died in December 1988 in Gedera.

Conditions Governing Access

OPEN_ACCESS

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

video/mp4

MP4

Finding Aids

Subjects

Places

  • Czech Republic
  • Poland
  • Sobibor
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