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Oral history interview with Fanny Aizenberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.93 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0621

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    Oral history interview with Fanny Aizenberg

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    Interview Summary
    Fanny Aizenberg (née Orenbach), born December 3, 1916 in Łódź, Poland, discusses her family’s move to Brussels, Belgium; her prewar life in Brussels and Schaerbeek; her public school education in Belgium; graduating from a college of art and design; working for the royal family designing clothing; her marriage to Jacques Aizenberg in 1938; her memories of Kristallnacht and the subsequent influx of Jewish immigrants to Belgium; the invasion of Poland and beginning of the war; the German invasion of Belgium in 1940; her husband’s mobilization; her daughter’s birth; hiding members of the underground; the persecution of Jews in Belgium following the German invasion; her decision to put her daughter in the care of two benevolent German women; her anxiety about her unknown future; going into hiding with her mother; their discovery by the Germans and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; laboring in an ammunition factory in Auschwitz; the harsh conditions and treatment of prisoners in Auschwitz; medical experimentation; a death march to Ravensbrück; her survival and liberation; reuniting with her daughter and husband; her struggle to recover from her Holocaust experiences; and the importance of providing her oral testimony.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Fanny Aizenberg
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Steven Vitto
    Date
    interview:  2011 April 21
    Credit Line
    Interview funded by a grant from the Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Fanny Aizenberg in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 2011.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:55
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