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Oral history interview with Barbara Firestone

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.25 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0570

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    Oral history interview with Barbara Firestone

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    Interview Summary
    Barbara Firestone, born February 14, 1939 in Krakow, Poland, discusses her father Simon Spielman (ph) and her mother Cznrna Stiel (ph); her sister Helen Winchester and her brother Arthur Spielman; her father’s occupation as a shoemaker; being raised in an Orthodox Jewish family; speaking Yiddish and Polish at home; moving with her family to a ghetto; daily life as a child in the ghetto; how her father saved many people, including the Bobower Rebbe and the Halberstam family; how her parents sent her brother and sister to an orphanage; reuniting with her brother and sister and living in Hungary as gentiles; her memories of when the Russians bombed the entire town; how her brother and father returned to Poland and found their home occupied by a Polish family; how her father earned money by bootlegging alcohol and selling it to Russian soldiers, her father’s arrest after the Russians were made sick from drinking his alcohol; leaving Hungary in 1946 and living in a Displaced Persons camp for three years; how her brother and sister wanted to go to Israel; her family’s plans for immigrating to the United States; how her father would not leave the ship upon arrival in New York because it was the Shabbat; adjusting to American life; learning English; her family’s Jewish faith; her realization that she was a Holocaust survivor; and personal details of her marriage to a fellow Holocaust survivor.
    Interviewee
    Barbara Firestone
    Interviewer
    Judy Cohen
    Date
    interview:  2010 March 02

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Barbara Firestone on March 2, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:38
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