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Oral history interview with Sylvia Green
| Date |
1996 Jan. 11
(interview)
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| RG Number | RG-50.030*0466 |
| Extent |
Master copies, 3 sound cassettes (60 min.) : analog. Protection copies, 3 sound cassettes (60 min.) : analog. User copies, 3 sound cassettes (60 min.) : analog. |
| Language |
English |
| Scope and Content | Sylvia Green was born in 1924 in Karlsruhe, Germany and describes growing up in a modern Orthodox family; the loss of her non-Jewish friends and being kicked out of school when Hitler came to power; going to places where people would not recognize her as a Jew to see Hitler in parades; her father’s deportation to Poland in 1938; her family’s attempts to immigrate to America and live with her aunt; working in the Jewish Welfare Office until her family chose to move to Kraków and live with another aunt; having to wear an armband in 1940 and finding enjoyment in taunting German troops; being moved with her family into the Plaszów ghetto; the loss of her parents while she worked at Kabelwerk; her deportation to Auschwitz with her aunt; her transfer to Bergen-Belsen where she took a job as a translator; her liberation and getting back in touch with her brother in Munich and her aunt in America; immigrating to America and ending up in Lexington, Kentucky; and meeting her husband Jake through a blind date and then starting a family with him. |
| Provenance | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Sylvia Green on January 11, 1996 |
| Legal Status | Permanent Collection |
| Classification |
sound recording
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| Subjects |
Green, Sylvia, -- 1924-
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations -- Poland. Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Plaszów -- History -- 20th century. Forced Labor -- Poland -- History -- 20th century. Karlsruhe (Germany) Kraków (Poland) United States -- Emigration and immigration. Oral histories. |
| Copyright |
No restrictions on access
No restrictions on use |
| Level of Description | Sound recording |
| Creator |
Sylvia Green |
| 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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