Oral history interview with Helena Orchon
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Gay Block
- Malka Drucker
Biographical History
Gay Block and Malka Drucker produced the interview with Helena Orchon on February 17, 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
- Helena Orchon
- Gay Block
- Orchon, Helena, 1903-1998.
- Malka Drucker
Corporate Bodies
- Polska Partia Socjalistyczna
- Voice of America (Organization)
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
- Political prisoners--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Smuggling--Poland--Warsaw.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Interfaith marriage.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Actresses.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- England.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
- Prisons--Lithuania--Vilnius.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.
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