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Oral history interview with Ilona Schwartz and Peter Schwartz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1448 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1448

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    Oral history interview with Ilona Schwartz and Peter Schwartz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ilona Schwartz discusses her experiences in Auschwitz; the selection she and her sister survived; the forced labor she performed sorting the clothing brought by the prisoners arriving on the train; finding her mother's dress among the piles of clothing; meeting her husband in Hungary in 1946; immigrating to the United States; and the psychological effects of her Holocaust experiences, particularly the anger she still feels when she sees Nazis and KKK members on the television.
    Peter Schwartz describes his work as part of a forced labor crew in Russian territory; the terrible conditions; the brutality of the guards; and escaping a building full of men with typhus that had been set on fire by the guards.
    Interviewee
    Ilona Schwartz
    Peter Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  1983 April 14
    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
    Schwartz, Ilona.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ilona Schwartz on April 14, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:50:26
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