Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein

Identifier
irn511793
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.338.34
  • RG-50.037.0034
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511793

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Creator(s)

  • Mrs. Toby Back

Biographical History

Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.

Archival History

Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Gerda W. Klein
  • Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
  • Mrs. Toby Back
  • Klein, Kurt, 1920-

Corporate Bodies

  • United States. Army

Subjects

  • War brides.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Star of David badges.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Forced labor.
  • Textile workers.
  • Jews--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Death marches.
  • Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
  • Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
  • Tuberculosis.
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • Quarries and quarrying.
  • France.

Genre

  • Oral History
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