Oral history interview with Louise Birch
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Neenah Ellis
Biographical History
Neenah Ellis, on the behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Louise Birch on July 15, 1995 in West Park, New York.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Neenah Ellis
- Birch, Louise, 1921-2005.
- Ms. Louise Birch
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 131st
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 34th
- Gusen (Concentration camp)
- Queen Elizabeth (Ship)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Linz (Austria)
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Cleveland (Ohio)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--Great Britain.
- England.
- V-J Day, 1945.
- Military nursing--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Nurses--United States.
- DDT (Insecticide)
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Austria.
- France.
- V-E Day, 1945.
- Passenger ships
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--England.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Germany.
- Military nursing--Germany.
- Fort Jackson (Columbia, S.C.)
- Military nursing--England.
Genre
- Oral History