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Oral history interview with Irene Weiss

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.70.45 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0045

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    Oral history interview with Irene Weiss

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Irene Weiss (née Berger), born October 31, 1914 in Ardanovce, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), discusses her family background; her schooling and working in Trnava, Slovakia; being transported with her sister via the Patronka collection depot in Bratislava to Auschwitz in March 1942; her arrival at Auschwitz and being processed the day after they arrived; being in the second Jewish transport to Auschwitz; working conditions in the camp; working cleaning bricks and in the fields; working in the Schreibstube office working to register new arrivals; her and her sister being transferred to Birkenau in August 1942; continuing to work to register new arrivals but when fewer transports began arriving the Schreibstube closed down temporarily; getting various jobs in the Stubendienst; she and her sister getting typhus; getting an order to go to Auschwitz and changing into an Aryan prisoner uniform; being placed to live in the Polish barrack; starting work in the new Schreibstube, registering prisoners ready to be sent to the gas chambers; living in the basement of Stabsgebaude and working in the Politische Abteilung as one of 60 women prisoners on staff; how the gassing stopped during November 1944; the SS officers preparing to flee Auschwitz; prisoners starting to equip themselves with warm clothing and being told to leave the camp; going to Bielitz (Bielsko-Biala, Poland), then on to Ravensbrück, Neustadt-Glewe, Mecklenburg, and Prenzlau; and finding a Stalag prisoner-of-war camp, in which was the nephew of the Czech president (Eduard Benes), who organized a bus to bring her back to Prague and then home.
    Interviewee
    Irene Berger Weiss
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 04
    Credit Line
    Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Permission must be obtained from the University of Sydney, Archive of Australian Judaica for any type of use other than research.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Weiss, Irene, 1914-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Irene Weiss for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:03:14
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