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