Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
Extent and Medium
2 digital files, MP4
Biographical History
This is an interview conducted for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program, a seasonal program that enables USHMM visitors to hear Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Weiss, Irene Fogel, 1930-
- Irene Fogel Weiss
Corporate Bodies
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Hungarians--Czechoslovakia.
- Antisemitism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish orphans.
- Batrad' (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- Jews--Ukraine--Batrad'.
- Germany.
- Jewish families.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Poland.
- Death marches.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Sisters.
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Genre
- Oral History