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