Oral history interview with Isaac Kurtz
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, produced the interview with Isaac Kurtz on June 13, 2011.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
This testimony was recorded through a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University
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
- Isaac Kurtz
- Kurtz, Isaac.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Leg--Wounds and injuries.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Poland.
- Canada.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
- Jewish property--Czechoslovakia.
- Kapos.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Antisemitism in education--Czechoslovakia.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Jews--Slovakia--Košice.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- High Holidays.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- United States.
- Railroad construction workers.
- Košice (Slovakia)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Cantors (Judaism)
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Hanging--Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Austria.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Theft.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Antisemitism--Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral History