Oral history interview with Esther Peterseil
Extent and Medium
2 digital files, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Amud Aish Memorial Museum's Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, produced the interview with Esther Peterseil on June 20, 2017.
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 Amud Aish Memorial Museum Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center.
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
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
- Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947.
- Esther Peterseil
- Peterseil, Esther.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish families--Poland--Bedzin.
- Bedzin (Poland)
- Death marches.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Amenorrhea.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Sisters.
- Burning (Execution)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bedzin.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Starvation.
- Jews--Poland--Bedzin.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Frostbite.
- Forced labor.
- Hiding places--Poland--Bedzin.
- Death march survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Curfews.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps.
Genre
- Oral History
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