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Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.32.1 | RG Number: RG-50.777.0001

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    Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hannah Stein, born in Albigowa, Poland on August 18, 1917, discusses her childhood on a farm with three brothers and two sisters; separating from her family after the mayor said that Nazis were coming; hiding in the attic of a Polish family; eating very little because the Polish family was poor; conditions in the attic in which she could not stand nor sit up because of the low ceiling; missing her family while in hiding; staying in hiding for two and a half years during the war; being liberated by Soviet forces; her cousin, Leon Lowenbrown, who came with a Russian soldier to find her after the war; how most of her family members, except for two brothers, perished during the war; meeting her husband, Henry Stein, in 1945; moving to Munich, Germany and raising a family; immigrating to the United States in 1961; and helping her husband open a fish market in Brooklyn, NY.
    Interviewee
    Hannah Stein
    Interviewer
    Alex Flicker
    Date
    interview:  2013 May 05
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alex Flicker

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-2.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Stein, Hannah, 1917-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Alex Flicker donated the oral history interview with her great-grandmother Hannah Stein to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on March 6, 2014.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:32:11
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