Oral history interview with Hella Weiss
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hella Weiss on April 29, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Weiss, Hella Heilbronn, 1934-
- Hella Weiss
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Lengerich (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Czech Republic.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Netherlands.
- Jews, German--Netherlands.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Netherlands.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Altruism.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Lengerich (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Genre
- Oral History
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