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Oral history interview with Olga Zeleny

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1208 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1208

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    Oral history interview with Olga Zeleny

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Olga Zeleny, born June 12, 1922 in Tisza-Ujlak, Czechoslovakia (now Vylok, Ukraine), discusses her childhood in Tisza-Ujlak; being deported to a nearby ghetto in Sevluš (now Vynohradiv, Ukraine) after the Hungarian invasion in 1939; her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz; her short time there; her transfer with her sister to Stutthof; the work they performed there; additional transfers to other camps; the sisters' escape while on a death march; their survival in hiding in the forests; their liberation by the Soviet army; their postwar life; her immigration to the United States; the emotional impact of her Holocaust experiences; and the fates of other family members.
    Interviewee
    Olga Zeleny
    Date
    interview:  1983 April 12
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zeleny, Olga, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Olga Zeleny on April 12, 1983. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2007.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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