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Title: Michael Weiss interview
Authors: Bolkosky, Sidney M.
Wraight, Jamie L.
Weiss, Michael
Keywords: 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
Issue Date: 9-Aug-1995
Publisher: The University of Michigan-Dearborn Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
Citation: http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/weissm/ <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57191>
Abstract: An interview with Michael Weiss, a survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Sid Bolkosky.
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.
Appears in Collections:Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive (UM-Dearborn)
Institute for Social Research (ISR)

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