Oral history interview with Ruth Elias
Extent and Medium
8 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ruth Elias in Israel on September 4, 1991, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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
- Elias, Ruth, 1922-
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
- Ruth Elias
Corporate Bodies
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Taucha (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Zasole (Oświęcim, Poland)
- Pregnant women.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching.
- Taucha (Saxony, Germany)
- Infanticide--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Jews--Czech Republic--Ostrava.
- Weapons industry--Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)
- Roll calls--Poland.
- Malnutrition.
- Talismans.
- Romanies.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Women concentration camp guards.
- Hiding places--Czechoslovakia.
- Passing (Identity)--Poland.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Women concentration camp inmates--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History