Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with Ivonne Razon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.123 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0123

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with Ivonne Razon

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ivonne Razon, born in 1928 in Greece, describes living in a Jewish neighborhood; her family; her early life; how one night they heard that their neighborhood (“Baron Hirsch”) was surrounded by a fence and that a ghetto had been established; the start of the transports, but her family not going because her father had Yugoslavian citizenship; being 14 years old when she was sent on a transport to Birkenau; life in the camp; her work digging ditches; working in the Kannada Commando; going to Auschwitz; going on a death march from Auschwitz to Ravensbrück and then Malchow; working as a nurse; being liberated; going into houses and looking for food; entering a Soviet displaced persons camp, where she contracted typhus and had to stay in the hospital for a lengthy time; returning to Greece and immigrating to Palestine; experiencing depression; her difficult adaptation to a new country; and her reasons for telling her story.
    Interviewee
    Ivonne Razon
    Date
    interview:  1993 March 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Razon, Ivonne, 1928-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ivonne Razon in Israel on March 18, 1993, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:05
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn502829

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us