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Object description
Transcription (55pp ts) of an interview with her in which she recalls her experiences as a Jewish girl in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, with reference to her family background in Lodz and the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in the city before the war, the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and its immediate effects on the Jewish population of Lodz, the establishment of the ghetto in early 1940, the family's eviction from their apartment and the confiscation of their valuable possessions, acts of resistance to Nazi oppression, general conditions in the ghetto, the death of her parents from starvation, the mass deportations in September 1942 and her own deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944, from where she was soon sent to work camps at Langenbielau and Hundsfeld (satellite camps of Gross-Rosen, to which she was transported before the end of the war).
Content description
Transcription (55pp ts) of an interview with her in which she recalls her experiences as a Jewish girl in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, with reference to her family background in Lodz and the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in the city before the war, the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and its immediate effects on the Jewish population of Lodz, the establishment of the ghetto in early 1940, the family's eviction from their apartment and the confiscation of their valuable possessions, acts of resistance to Nazi oppression, general conditions in the ghetto, the death of her parents from starvation, the mass deportations in September 1942 and her own deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944, from where she was soon sent to work camps at Langenbielau and Hundsfeld (satellite camps of Gross-Rosen, to which she was transported before the end of the war).
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2001-05