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Oral history interview with Stefania Podgórska Burzminski


Date 1989 Sept. 22  (interview)
RG Number RG-50.030*0048
Accession Number 1989.H.0339
Extent User copies, 3 videocassettes (VHS) (NTSC) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Protection copies, 3 videocassettes (Betacam SP) (NTSC) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Master copies, 3 videocassettes (Betacam SP) (NTSC) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language English
Scope and Content Stefania Podgórska Burzminski was born in Lipie, Poland and describes her family and childhood; helping her parents run a farm until she decided to move with her sister to Przemyśl and work in a bakery; the Russian invasion and not noticing much of a change in life until the Germans ousted the Russians; living in an apartment near the ghetto and witnessing people being deported from it; developing a relationship with a young man named Josef, who was Jewish and lived in the ghetto; having to explain what a Jew was to her little sister; helping to smuggle food into the ghetto for Josef and his family; moving into a large apartment and taking Josef and twelve other Jews in with her; having an SS man insist upon taking a room in her apartment and always living in fear that he would kill the Jews living there; and her liberation by Russian forces.
Classification video recording
Dimensions overall : 0.50 in.
overall : 0.50 in.
overall : 0.50 in.
Subjects Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska, -- 1921-
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Hungary.
Lipie (Częstochowa, Poland)
Przemyśl (Poland)
Oral histories.
Creator Stefania Podgórska Burzminski
Record Type Oral History
Attachment
  • Oral history interview with Stefania Podgórska Burzminski transcript, RG-50.030*0048
    Type: Transcript
    h0000054.pdf
Digital Files Digitization Status: Completely Digital
Link to Parent Record United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection
RG-50.030 /
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