Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein
Extent and Medium
4 film reels, color ; 16 mm
5 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
2 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bradley
Biographical History
Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein on March 13, 1992, in Scottsdale, Ariz., in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the film and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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
- Sandra Bradley
- Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
- Gerda W. Klein
Corporate Bodies
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
- Maerzdorf (Concentration camp)
- Bolkenhain (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Flax--Harvesting.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Menorah.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Volary (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- Forced labor.
- Women concentration camp guards--Germany.
- Weavers.
- Death marches.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Looms.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History