Overview
- Interview Summary
- Isaac Stain discusses his experiences during the Holocaust, including his family’s deportation to Auschwitz where his wife and two children were murdered; his escape into the woods and return to his home town of Partziv, Poland where he found no one left; hiding in the forest with his brother’s newborn baby; and the death of the baby and his feelings of lifelong guilt.
- Interviewee
- Isaac Stain
- Date
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interview:
approximately 1978 September
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anna Szerencsy
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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2 digital files : WAV.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Anna Szerencsy donated a copy of the oral history interview with her father Isaac Stain to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2024-01-25 11:45:26
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