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Oral history interview with Stefania Podgórska Burzminski
| Date |
1989 Sept. 22
(interview)
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| 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. |
| Legal Status | Permanent Collection |
| Classification |
video recording
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| 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. |
| Copyright |
No restrictions on access
No restrictions on use |
| Creator |
Stefania Podgórska Burzminski |
| Record Type | Oral History |
| Attachment |
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| 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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| Record last modified: 2013-01-24 10:30:30 | |