Subject(s):World War Two, World War 2, World War II, WW2, WWII, Shoah, Jewish Holocaust, Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Interviews, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czechoslovakia -- Personal narratives, Concentration camp inmates -- Interviews
Description: An interview with Michael Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. Born in Kascony, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Weiss chronicles his experiences under the Czechoslovakians, Hungarians and Germans, both prior to and during the Second World War. Mr. Weiss and his family were shipped to the Hungarian ghetto of Beregszasz (Berehovo) in 1944. From Beregszasz, the family was deported to Auschwitz where his mother was gassed by the Germans. From Auschwitz, Weiss and his father were sent to Buchenwald and then on to Zeitz, located approximately fifteen miles south of Leipzig in Central Germany.
