Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with Frank Reiss

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.030.0187

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with Frank Reiss

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frank Reiss, born in 1935 in Berlin, Germany, describes his family; his family’s decision to flee to Czechoslovakia in 1938; his mother’s execution for her work in the Warsaw underground; his father arranging for him to live with a Jewish family who had “bought” their protection; being deported to a camp in Žilina, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) before they could go into hiding; being released from the camp with the help of Arthur Porges, a friend of the family who had connections in the camp; going into hiding in 1943 in the Slovakian villages of Bardell and Sharfia (near Nitra, Slovakia); hiding in the woods with the Porges family; being sheltered by a Gentile but getting captured by the SS early in 1944; their deportation to a prison in Nitra, a camp in Sered, Czechoslovakia and finally to Theresienstadt in 1945; and being liberated by the Red Army liberation in May 1945.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Frank Reiss
    Interviewer
    Linda G. Kuzmack
    Date
    interview:  1991 June 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Interview can not be used for sale in the Museum Shop.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Reiss, Frank, 1935-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Linda Kuzmack, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Frank Reiss on June 18, 1991.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:01:14
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn504683

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us