Oral history interview with Bernard Wiss and Betty Wiss
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Bernard and Betty Wiss 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
- Wiss, Bernard, 1919-
- Betty Wiss
- Wiss, Betty.
- Bernard Wiss
Subjects
- Bialystok (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Russia (Federation)--Komi.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Bukhoro (Uzbekistan)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Belleville (N.J.)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
- Antisemitism.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Newark (N.J.)
- Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
- World War, 1939-1945--Uzbekistan.
- Black market--Uzbekistan--Bukhoro.
- Śródmieście (Warsaw, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Malaria.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews, Polish.
- Szczecin (Poland)
- Komi (Russia)
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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