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Oral history interview with Esia Shor

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.83 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0565

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    Oral history interview with Esia Shor

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    Interview Summary
    Esia Shor (née Levin), born December 3, 1925 in Nowogródek, Poland (now Navahrudak, Belarus), discusses her childhood; life under the Russian occupation of Eastern Poland; Polish antisemitism; the German invasion of Eastern Poland in June, 1941; fleeing to her cousin Bielski’s farm and standing guard against robbers; the deaths of her mother and sisters in December 1941; how she and her father survived because he was the only bookbinder in the town; living in the ghetto and working with Mr. Foltanski, a polish engineer, as a house maid; her escape from the ghetto with the help of Mr. and Mrs. Foltanski; her return to the ghetto to reunite with her father; escaping once again and fleeing to her cousins’ partisan group in the woods; how the partisan group rescued her father and 80 other people through a tunnel; how her experiences compare to the film “Defiance”, based on the partisan group; her life as a female partisan; the time she spent with Russian partisans; how Russian partisans treated their Jewish counterparts; liberation of Poland by Russians; attending school in Poland under Soviet rule; and marrying in Łódź, Poland.
    Interviewee
    Eshke S. Levin
    Interviewer
    Judy Cohen
    Date
    interview:  2010 February 22

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shor, Esia.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Esia Shor on February 22, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in March 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:36
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