Oral history interview with Sam Weiss
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sam Weiss on June 25, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2000.
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
- Sam Weiss
- Weiss, Sam, 1928-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Jews--Ukraine--Richka (Zakarpats'ka oblast', Ukraine)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Munich (Germany)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Forced labor.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Star of David badges.
- Poland.
- Hungarians--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Richka (Zakarpats'ka oblast', Ukraine)
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Soldiers--Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- California.
Genre
- Oral History
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