Oral history interview with Peter Eugene Weiss

Identifier
irn519120
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.428
  • RG-50.784.0001
Dates
1 Jan 1998 - 31 Dec 1998
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519120

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Biographical History

Peter Eugene Weiss donated this oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 17, 2007, with the permission and assistance of the Holocaust Museum Houston. The interview was conducted on March 13, 1998 as part of the Holocaust Survivors of Houston Oral History Project.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

People

  • Weiss, Peter Eugene, 1939-
  • Mr. Peter E. Weiss

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Jewish families--Slovakia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
  • Hiding places--Slovakia.
  • Liptovská Teplá (Slovakia)
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Cuba--Emigration and immigration.
  • Escapes.
  • Dominican Republic.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Slovakia.
  • Aruba.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Child concentration camp inmates.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Slovakia--Personal narratives.
  • Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
  • Jews--Slovakia--Liptovská Teplá.

Genre

  • Oral History
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