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