Oral history interview with Edith Weigert
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Peter Ryan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Edith Weigert on November 2,1989. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in April 2003.
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
Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
People
- Weigert, Edith, 1899-1992.
- Edith Weigert
- Peter Ryan
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Bolivia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Bolivia--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews.
- Wrocław (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Bolivia.
- Panama.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Identity.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Teachers.
- Jews, German--Bolivia.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- La Paz (Bolivia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- Jews--Poland--Wrocław.
Genre
- Oral History