Oral history interview with Božena Růžičová
Extent and Medium
2 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Sylvia Prozan
- Nigel French
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch coordinated the interview with Božena Růžičová on June 19, 1997 as part of the Museum's Czech Roma Documentation Project.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Bozena Ruzickova
- Růžičová, Božena, 1924-
- Nigel French
- Sylvia Prozan
Corporate Bodies
- Lety (Concentration camp)
- Great Britain. Army
- International Committee of the Red Cross
Subjects
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
- Women concentration camp guards.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Shooting (Execution)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Death march survivors.
- Javor (Plzeňský kraj, Czech Republic)
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Romanies--Crimes against--Czechoslovakia.
- Bremen (Germany)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Childbirth.
- Sweden
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Czechoslovakia.
- Romanies--Poland.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Neveklovice (Czech Republic)
- Lübeck (Germany)
- Pregnant women.
- Lobec (Czech Republic)
- Sobótka (Województwo Dolnoslaskie, Poland)
- Malnutrition.
- Weapons industry.
- Prisons--Germany.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
Genre
- Oral History
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