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Oral history interview with Rubin Pizem

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.308 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0651

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    Oral history interview with Rubin Pizem

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rubin Pizem, born November 29, 1930, describes his prewar life as a child in Poland in a place that is now located in Ukraine; the invasion of Poland and German occupation; the murder of his father and two uncles by the Einzengruppen; his sister Esther, who was killed in a labor camp; his time in hiding with the help of non-Jewish friends; his time in the woods where he hid in underground shelters with his mother and sister, Ida, for a year; their liberation by the Russian Army in 1944; difficulties he faced trying to immigrate to Israel to join his mother and sister; his eventual decision to immigrate to the United States instead; his marriage to a Hungarian woman he met in the United States; and his struggles to recover emotionally from his experiences during the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Rubin Pizem
    Interviewer
    Ms. Kacey Bayles
    Date
    interview:  2011 December 16

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Pizem, Rubin, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Kacey Bayles, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Rubin Pizem in New York, New York on December 16, 2011.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:06
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