Overview
- Interview Summary
- Freda (Dvora Frieda) Silberberg Wineman, born in 1923, discusses her childhood in St. Etienne, France; life under the Vichy government; being arrested along with her family by the "Milice" in May 1944; being sent to Drancy concentration camp and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp; her experiences in Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt concentration camps; and her postwar life in France and England.
- Interviewee
- Freda S. Wineman
- Interviewer
- Taffy Sasoon
- Date
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interview:
1988 November 22-1989 January 12
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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11 sound cassettes (60 min.).
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- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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- Restrictions on use. See donor agreement in donor file for details.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors--England. Holocaust survivors--France--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives. Jewish families--France. Jews--France--Saint-Etienne (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) Jews--Persecutions--France. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France. Women--Personal narratives. Militia
- Geographic Name
- England. France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. Lower Saxony (Germany) Saint-Etienne (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France) Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) France
- Personal Name
- Wineman, Freda Silberberg, 1923- Silberberg family.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The oral history interview forms part of The Living Memory of the Jewish Community collection of the British Library National Sound Archive, 29 Exhibition Rd., London SW7 2 AS, England. Freda Silberberg Wineman sent a copy of the audio cassettes and transcript to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in December 1993, and signed a donor agreement in November 1995. The British Library National Sound Archive signed a donor agreement for the transcript in November 1995.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 08:16:42
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