Oral history interview with Vera Korkus
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Vera Korkus on September 2, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
- Korkus, Vera.
- Vera Korkus
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Austria.
- Death marches--Europe.
- Jewish ghettos--Austria--Vienna.
- Jewish families--Austria.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Rape victims.
- Bohemia (Czech Republic)
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral History
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