Oral history interview with Ruth Cohen

Identifier
irn502993
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.216
  • RG-50.120.0216
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502993

Extent and Medium

5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ruth Cohen in Israel on August 25, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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

  • Ms. Ruth Cohen
  • Cohen, Ruth, 1920-
  • Goeth, Amon Leopold, 1908-1946.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Burgau (Bavaria, Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Czestochowa (Poland)
  • Weapons industry.
  • Israel.
  • Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  • Forced labor.
  • Kraków (Poland)
  • Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jews--Poland--Kraków.
  • Türkheim (Bavaria, Germany)
  • Jewish councils--Poland--Kraków.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel.
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Concentration camp escapes.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
  • Childbirth.
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Starvation.
  • Lower Saxony (Germany)

Genre

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