Presentation by Gene Meisels

Identifier
irn720734
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.159.1
  • RG-90.139.0001
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn720734

Extent and Medium

18 digital files, WAV

10 digital files, WMA

Biographical History

David Meisels donated his father Gene Meisels' oral testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2020. The testimony was recorded during a commemoration at the University of Massachusetts during the 40th year anniversary of Gene Meisels' liberation from Wöbbelin concentration camp.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Meisels

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

People

  • Meisels, Gene, 1933-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
  • Child concentration camp inmates.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Forced labor.
  • Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Vylok.
  • Zakarpats'ka oblast' (Ukraine)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
  • Poland.
  • Vylok (Ukraine)
  • Germany.
  • Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Romanies.

Genre

  • Oral History
  • Lectures.
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