Oral history interview with Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz
Extent and Medium
2 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Linda G. Kuzmack
Biographical History
Linda Kuzmack, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz on February 20, 1990.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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
Restrictions on use. Interview cannot be used for sale in the Museum Shop. Interview cannot be used by a third party for creation of a work for commercial purposes.
People
- Meyerowitz, Ruth Krautwirth, 1929-
- Ruth K. Meyerowitz
- Linda G. Kuzmack
Corporate Bodies
- Malchow (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Weapons industry--Germany.
- Death marches.
- Germany.
- Forced Labor--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Road construction industry--Poland.
- Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main.
Genre
- Oral History
- Oral histories.