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Oral history interview with Esther Fol

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.365 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0550

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    Oral history interview with Esther Fol

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Esther Fol (née Onay Vidoma) discusses her early life in Slonim, Poland (present day Belarus); knowing little about her family; her mother’s role in the partisans; the train she was on with her mother; hiding in the woods; immigrating to Israel and finding out about her parents in 1960; living in a Christian orphanage; her uncle coming and taking her; going to Warsaw, Poland to get help; being given to a Jewish agency; being placed in Łódź, Poland in an orphanage; immigrating illegally to Palestine on the ship Sylvania; being arrested by the British; living with a foster family near Netanyah, Israel; being named Esther Pajewski; finding extended family in the United States and Italy; being removed by the Israeli court from her foster home to become Orthodox; her education and job in Israel; immigrating to the United States; becoming a Hebrew teacher; meeting her husband; taking a trip back to Belarus; and her life in the U.S.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Esther Fol
    Interviewer
    Mr. Christian Url
    Date
    interview:  2008 November 08

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Fol, Esther.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Esther Fol on November 8, 2008. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:31
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