Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
Extent and Medium
3 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
- Irene Fogel Weiss
- Weiss, Irene Fogel, 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
- Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Germany.
- Jewish families.
- Batrad' (Ukraine)
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Antisemitism.
- Jewish orphans.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Sisters.
- Hungarians--Czechoslovakia.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Jews--Ukraine--Batrad'.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Poland.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral History