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Oral history interview with Zelda Farbenblum

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.70.16 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0016

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    Oral history interview with Zelda Farbenblum

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zelda Farbenblum, born June 28, 1926 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), discusses her childhood; being deported on the evening of Tisha B’av in 1941; her father failing to believe a warning he received telling him to leave; being dumped in a field by Hungarian soldiers; moving often; managing to pay for a transport across the river Dniester; wandering for almost a month; reaching the border again with her family; her father's death; the separation of her family; living on a property which had belonged to her father; being put into the Chust ghetto in 1943; life in the ghetto; being transported to Auschwitz in May 1944; arriving at Birkenau; her memories of roll-call; feeling dehumanized; being transported to Nürnberg (Nuremberg, Germany) in November 1944; staying in Nürnberg a little less than a month; being taken to Plauen, Germany, where she worked in an ammunitions factory; hearing rumors about American troops nearing the factory; being told she was free but not believing it until she saw that all the Germans and Hungarians had fled; going to a nearby village and seeing American soldiers; being rehabilitated for about three months; going to Prague, Czech Republic in hopes of finding family in 1946; working in Prague and meeting her husband and fellow survivor, Harry; and leaving for Australia in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Zelda Farbenblum
    Date
    interview:  1990 June 25
    Credit Line
    Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Permission must be obtained from the University of Sydney, Archive of Australian Judaica for any type of use other than research.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Farbenblum, Zelda, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Zelda Farbenblum on June 25, 1990 for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:03:03
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