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Oral history interview with Rivka Kooper (Rivka Liebeskind Kuper)

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.78 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0078

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    Oral history interview with Rivka Kooper (Rivka Liebeskind Kuper)

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    Interview Summary
    Rivka Liebeskind Kuper (née Shpiner), born in 1920, in Rzeszow, Poland, describes her family and education; her family moving in 1933 to Krakow, Poland, where she attended school and became active in the Zionist youth movement, Akiva; the arrival of the Germans; the establishment of the Krakow ghetto and life there; deportations and joining the ghetto underground; how she looked Aryan and managed to get a false identification with a false name; selling documents to other Jews for money, which they used to buy weapons; being arrested and sent to Birkenau; life in the camp; being sent in November 1943 to Reichenbach and then to work in a Telefunken plant; moving to Hamburg, then to Bergen-Belsen, and finally to Denmark, where she was liberated; moving to Sweden, where she met her second husband and worked with Zionist youth groups; how she became involved in the Haganah; going to Cyprus then to Israel; and her post-Holocaust life.
    Interviewee
    Rivka Liebeskind
    Date
    interview:  1992 May 21
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    8 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Rivka Kooper in Israel on May 21, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:14:50
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