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Oral history interview with Regina Gutman Spiegel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.281.14 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0014

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    Oral history interview with Regina Gutman Spiegel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Regina Spiegel, born in Radom, Poland on April 20, 1926, discusses her views on why the Nazis killed Jews; the Nazi invasion, during which she was age 13; her family; being vulnerable to those in control; how her family gave up all their valuables; the antisemitic laws; the establishment of the ghetto in 1940; bribing the ghetto guards so she could escape; taking a train to her sister’s home in a nearby village; working in a camp there; how her sister was turned in to the Gestapo and was later killed while trying to escape a train; being sent to Auschwitz; conditions on the train and the altruism of the passengers; getting to Auschwitz, being stripped of clothing, tattooed, and having all her hair removed in the showers; going back to Auschwitz in 1976; being put to work in a munitions factory at Bergen-Belsen; being on a train that was bombed by Allied Forces and sustaining shrapnel injuries; German and Jewish relations; the death of her sister and nephew; and the depression in Germany.
    Subtitle
    While the World Was Silent: The Story of Regina Gutman Spiegel
    Interviewee
    Regina Spiegel
    Date
    interview:  1988 May 12
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Holocaust Eyewitness Project and Edith Fierst

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    4 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Spiegel, Regina, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Holocaust Eyewitness Project produced the interview with Regina Gutman Spiegel on May 12, 1988 in the Washington, D.C. area. Edith Fierst, on behalf of the Holocaust Eyewitness Project, donated a copy of the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 07:57:58
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