Overview
- Interview Summary
- Sally Wechsler, born in Kraków, Poland, discusses her prewar life in an upper class family; the German invasion of Poland; her forced labor in Płaszów; her deportation to Auschwitz; her subsequent deportation to forced labor in Czechoslovakia; and her liberation by the Red Army in April 1945.
- Interviewee
- Sally Wechsler
- Date
-
interview:
2004
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anna Heffron
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD : MPEG-2.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Women--Personal narratives.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Anna Heffron donated the oral history interview with her mother Sally Wechsler to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2013.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:30:28
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