Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, 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
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Irene Fogel Weiss
- Weiss, Irene Fogel, 1930-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
- Kanada I (Concentration camp)
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Germany.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Teplice (Czech Republic)
- Jews--Ukraine--Batrad'.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children.
- Sisters.
- Mukacheve (Ukraine)
- Forced labor.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish orphans.
- Antisemitism.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Batrad' (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Hungarians--Czechoslovakia.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Jewish families.
Genre
- Oral History