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Oral history interview with Renne Schiller

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.374 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0556

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    Oral history interview with Renne Schiller

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Renee Schiller, born in 1936 in Horodenka, Poland (present day Ukraine), discusses her family; her experiences as a young child living in the ghetto; fleeing to other towns and ghettos with her family; hiding in a bunker and escaping when it was discovered; returning to hiding until liberation; developing typhus after liberation and losing her hair; leaving for Poland with her mother and brother; staying in Polish orphanages and a displaced persons camp in Germany; returning to a different orphanage and being sent to the United States in 1949; living with a foster family with her brother until her mother joined them; attending school in New York and Minneapolis; her marriage; and her life in the U.S.
    Interviewee
    Renee Schiller
    Interviewer
    Stephanie Blyskal
    Date
    interview:  2008 November 09

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Schiller, Renee, 1936-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Renee Schiller on November 9, 2008. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:33
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