Oral history interview with Irene Shapiro
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irene Shapiro on April 11, 1983. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 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
- Mrs. Irene Shapiro
- Shapiro, Irene.
Corporate Bodies
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Subjects
- Adjustment (Psychology)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Heidelberg (Germany)
- Germany--History--1945-1955.
- Lippstadt (Germany)
- Białystok (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Białystok.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jews--Poland--Białystok.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Forced labor.
Genre
- Oral History
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