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Oral history interview with Dvora Fux

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.296 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0296

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    Oral history interview with Dvora Fux

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dvora Fuks, born in Belzyce, Poland in 1932, discusses her early family life; being one of four children; her father's lumber mill; celebrating Jewish holidays with her extended family; the arrival of the Germans; anti-Jewish measures; her father being rounded up for random labor; being hidden by non-Jewish neighbors in exchange for money; being discovered in hiding; life in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto in May 1943; sneaking into her parents group during a selection and being transported to the Krasnik ghetto; being transferred to Budzyn; hiding with her brother while the rest of the family worked; Commander Feiks killing prisoners; guards shooting prisoners who tried to escape; being sent to Majdanek; cleaning a German overseer's office for extra food; evacuation on foot (her brother being taken by bus) to Krasnik; seeing her father briefly; being sent to Auschwitz; the march out of Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 1945; separation from her family and living in a children's block; her mother and sisters being transferred; joining a cousin's block; a death march and train transfer to Ravensbrück; suffering from hunger; being transferred to Malchow and life in the camp; liberation by the Russians; being taken to a refugee camp; traveling to Łódź, then Lublin; being sent to an orphanage for girls; locating her brother in another orphanage; reuniting with her mother and sisters; moving to Lampertheim displaced persons camp due to antisemitic violence; going to Bergen-Belsen for high school; her immigration to Palestine in April 1948; her marriage; and sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren.
    Interviewee
    Dvora Fux
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    3 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
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Fux, Dvora, 1932-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Dvora Fux in Israel on October 18, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:16:02
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