Oral history interview with Libuse Fries and Erna Fries
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Malka Drucker
- Gay Block
Biographical History
Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Libuse and Erna Fries on July 23,1988 for their book "Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust," Holmes & Meier, 1992, as well as their documentary film "They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch received the tapes of the interviews from Malka Drucker and Gay Block in March 1989.
Archival History
Gay Block
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Fries, Libuse.
- Malka Drucker
- Gay Block
- Fries, Erna.
- Libuse Fries
- Erna Fries
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Czech Republic--Ethnic relations.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- Catholics--Czechoslovakia.
- Escapes.
- Prisons--Czech Republic--Prague.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Prague.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Czech Republic.
- Jewish children--Crimes against.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Czechoslovakia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.
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