Oral history interview with Chana Weiss
Extent and Medium
9 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chana Weiss in Israel on February 8, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 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, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Weiss, Chana.
- Chana Weiss
Corporate Bodies
- Fossoli di Carpi (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Varese (Italy)
- Milan (Italy)
- Italy.
- Como (Italy)
- Mestre (Italy)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Sisters.
- Trieste (Italy)
- Garda, Lake (Italy)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Forced labor.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Revenge.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian.
- Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships.
- Rijeka (Croatia)
- Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Italy.
- Prisons
- Opole (Poland)
- Lugo (Italy)
- Israel.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Passing (Identity)--Italy.
- Antisemitism.
Genre
- Oral History