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
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interview:
2013 May 05
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alex Flicker
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MPEG-2.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Altruism--Poland. Hiding places--Poland. Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Jewish families--Poland. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Jews--Poland--Albigowa. Rationing--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Albigowa (Poland) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Munich (Germany) New York (N.Y.) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Stein, Hannah, 1917-
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:32:11
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