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Oral history interview with Sabina Pelta

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.955 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0955

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    Oral history interview with Sabina Pelta

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sabina Pelta discusses her childhood in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland; her brothers’ arrests in September 1939; her decision to flee to the Soviet half of Poland; the challenges she faced on her journey; travelling further to Baranowice; her wedding; her arrest with her husband in June 1940; her deportation to a labor camp in Siberia; her experiences there; escaping the camp; living under false papers; travelling to central Asia; her time on a collective farm (kolkhoz); her escape; her journey back to Europe after the war ended; the decision to live in Sweden; immigrating to the United States in 1951; her life in America.
    Interviewee
    Sabina Pelta
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Ruth Linden
    Jill Nierman
    Vincent Iacopino
    Date
    interview:  1984 February 01
    interview:  1991 April 25
    interview:  1991 October 31
    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
    4 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sabina Pelta on February 1, 1984, April 25, 1991, and October 31, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2005.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:47:42
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