Overview
- Interview Summary
- Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, discusses his experiences during WW II, including his December 1942 internment in Drancy transit camp from which he escaped.
- Interviewee
- Izak Weber
- Date
-
interview:
1997 May 04
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Muriel Weber
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (60 min.).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives. Jews--Persecutions--France. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Paris (France)
- Personal Name
- Weber, Izak.
- Corporate Name
- Drancy (Internament camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Art and Artifacts Branch transferred this oral testimony with Izak Weber to the Museum's Oral History Branch in April 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-30 10:26:56
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Also in Izak and Marthe Weber collection
Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from family in Skole, Poland to Izak in Paris in 1942.
Izak and Marthe Weber papers
Document
Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents concerning Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris; his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942, from which he escaped; correspondence from his brother in Poland during the German occupation; correspondence from family in Skole, Poland to Izak in Paris in 1942; marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte; and documentation regarding his medical practice in Argentina and the United States after the war. Also includes pre-war photographs of Marthe's family in Paris, circa 1920s and 1930s.
