Overview
- Interview Summary
- Hilde Sandelowsky discusses her experiences in Berlin during World War II; her work in a Jewish hospital during the war as a pediatric nurse; and her mother Frieda Guttman who was deported to Theresienstadt and later murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. Otto Sandelowsky discusses his experiences in Amsterdam after the Nazi's seized the family farm in Prussia; the deportation of family members to concentration camps, ultimately ending up in Bergen-Belsen; going into hiding and fighting with the Dutch underground; fighting in Paris and Holland; his father Georg Sandelowsky’s death in Bergen-Belsen; and his Rosa Sandelowsky’s death from disease and starvation soon after liberation when she was placed on a train to a refugee village.
- Interviewee
- Hilde Sandelowsky
Otto Sandelowsky - Date
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interview:
1990
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Renee Sandelowsky
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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4 digital files : MPEG-2.
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Administrative Notes
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- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Renee Sandelowsky donated the interview with her parents Hilde and Otto Sandelowsky to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2021. The interview was produced by the Jewish Federation of Ocean County, NJ.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:09:42
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