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Oral history interview with Sarah Vogel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.70.197 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0197

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    Oral history interview with Sarah Vogel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sarah Vogel (née Weintraub), born March 22, 1915 in Siret, Romania, describes her life in Bukovina before 1941; her whole village being evacuated in cattle trucks and shunted around for two weeks; the Romanians from her village being sent back to her town while the Jews were shunted around some more and sent to labor before being allowed to return home in 1941; being forced to march hundreds of miles to Ukraine in 1942; bribing authorities to be allowed to live with local peasants; being liberated by Russian troops in March 1944; bribing the Russian border guards to let her cross the border and go back home; arriving back home in July 1944 and finding everything destroyed; sending her children to Bucharest, Romania; getting forged documents and following her children to Bucharest; living with a wealthy cousin and then with her brother once he returned from Russia with another cousin; illegally journeying to Israel in 1947 but not arriving until 1948; and immigrating to Australia in 1955.
    Interviewee
    Sarah Vogel
    Interviewer
    Nora Huppert
    Date
    interview:  1990 February 20
    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
    Vogel, Sarah, 1915-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Sarah Vogel on February 20, 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 09:04:16
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