Oral history interview with Frances Hirshfeld
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Esther Finder
Biographical History
Esther Finder, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview with Frances Hirshfeld on September 30, 1996 in Chevy Chase, MD.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Frances Hirshfeld
- Esther Finder
- Hirshfeld, Frances, 1918-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Scabies.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Faith (Judaism)
- Death march survivors.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Opatów (Poland)
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Jews--Poland--Opatów.
- Typhoid fever.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Hiding places--Ukraine.
- Jewish families--Poland.
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Germany.
- Jewish councils.
- Antisemitism--Poland--Zawiercie.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Holocaust denial.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Zawiercie (Poland)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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