Oral history interview with Helena Hammershmash
Extent and Medium
11 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Helena Hammershmash in Israel on April 21,1991, 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
- Helena Hammershmash
- Hammershmash, Helena.
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
- Zasole (Oświęcim, Poland)
- Nurses.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Rome (Italy)
- Death marches.
- Tokaj (Hungary)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Poets.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Israel.
- Munich (Germany)
- Hungary.
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Jewish families.
- Concentration camp inmates' writings.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Jews--Ukraine--Turka (L'vivs'ka oblast')
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Jewish youth--Ukraine--Societies and clubs.
- Typhoid fever.
- Zionists.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Yugoslavia.
- Refugee camps--Hungary.
- Pogroms--Ukraine--Turka (L'vivs'ka oblast')
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Hanging--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Jewish refugees--Hungary.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Turka (L'vivs'ka oblast', Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral History