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Oral history interview with Zygmund Shipper

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.63 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0526

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    Oral history interview with Zygmund Shipper

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zygmund Shipper, born on January 18, 1930 in Łódź, Poland, describes his childhood in an Orthodox household; his parents’ divorce and living with his grandparents; the changes in his life after the Nazi invasion of Poland; moving into the ghetto with his aunt and grandparents and seeing his grandfather die there; finding a job in a ghetto metal factory; the liquidation of the Łódź ghetto in 1944 and his deportation to Auschwitz; his transport to Stutthof to work in a stone quarry; his transport to Neustadt and trying to escape; his liberation by British troops in May 1945; receiving help from the American Joint Distribution Committee and the Red Cross while staying in a displaced persons camp; finding out the fate of his family; immigrating to England in December 1946; getting married to another Jewish refugee and opening a delicatessen shop; and making a life for himself after the war.
    Interviewee
    Zygmund Shipper
    Interviewer
    Neenah Ellis
    Date
    interview:  2008 May 27
    Credit Line
    Interview funded by a grant from the Lerner Family Foundation.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shipper, Zygmund, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Zygmund Shipper in Washington, D.C. on May 27, 2008. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 2008.
    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 08:03:23
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