Overview
- Interview Summary
- Rachel Verderber Garfunkel, originally of Krakow, Poland, describes her life in Canada; her memories of the German invasion of Poland; her move, along with her mother, sister, aunt, and cousins, to a small village in Ukraine; how, when the Germans came, she ran with her younger sister back to the Krakow ghetto, where she worked in a paper factory; being smuggled out of the ghetto with her sister; and spending the rest of the war in hiding.
- Interviewee
- Rachel Garfunkel
- Date
-
interview:
2006
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 DVD.
- Physical Description
- 2 DVD-ROMs.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. Rachel Garfunkel and the Jewish Federation of Edmonton hold joint copyright and distribution rights.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--Canada. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Kraków. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków. Jewish refugees--Ukraine. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Canada--Emigration and immigration. Kraków (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Personal Name
- Garfunkel, Rachel Verderber.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Jewish Federation of Edmonton
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Rachel Garfunkel donated her oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 16, 2008 with the written permission of the Jewish Federation of Edmonton. The oral history was conducted by the Jewish Federation of Edmonton in 2006 and was edited into an educational documentary entitled "Black Snow."
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:17:57
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