Oral history interview with Helen Balsam
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project conducted the interview with Helen Balsam in Bronx, NY on March 15, 1992.
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
- Helen Balsam
- Balsam, Helen, 1927-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jelenia Gora (Poland)
- Death march survivors.
- Bedzin (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Gunskirchen (Austria)
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Jews--Poland--Bedzin.
- Hirschegg (Austria)
- Interfaith marriage.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Dysentery.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Textile workers.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Refugee camps--Austria--Hirschegg.
- Austria.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bedzin.
Genre
- Oral History
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