Oral history interview with Blanche Porway
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, WAV
Creator(s)
- Gail Schwartz
Biographical History
Gail Schwartz, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Blanche Porway on May 20, 2016 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
- Gail Schwartz
- Blanche Porway
- Porway, Blanche, 1925-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Star of David badges.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Flossenbürg (Germany)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Starvation.
- Aircraft industry.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jews--Education--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Psychology.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Munich (Germany)
- Jewish families.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Sisters.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
Genre
- Oral History
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