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Helen Abramovitz Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Helen Abramovitz, Julie Orenstein
Helen Abramovitz Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Helen Abramovitz, Julie Orenstein
Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust (MS-215)
On July 30th, 1984 Julie Orenstein interviewed Helen Hoffman Abramovitz about her family and life growing up in Czechoslovakia prior to World War II and her life after the war in the United States. On side one Helen discussed her early life and schooling in a variety of locations in the Sudetenland and Prague. Of note, she mentions that she feared for her life everyday she lived in Sudetenland. In addition to her experiences growing up in Czechoslovakia, Helen discussed the varying jobs of her parents and their training. On side two Helen discusses her current life in the United …
Werner Becker Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Werner Becker, Stephen Kahn
Werner Becker Interview For The Survivors Of The Holocaust Oral History Project, Werner Becker, Stephen Kahn
Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust (MS-215)
On September 13, 1978 Stephen Kahn interviewed Werner Becker about his life in before, during, and after World War II. In the beginning of this interview Werner discusses his early childhood and his family in Mecklenburg province in Germany. As the interview progresses Werner recounts how he intended to attend college in France but declined to enroll because he foresaw Jewish students being excluded from attending and completing college. Towards the end of the interview he recounts his time working in Algeria, later working for the British Army, and his eventual arrival in Dayton.