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Oral history interview with Hedva Zeliger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178

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    Oral history interview with Hedva Zeliger

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    Interview Summary
    Hedva Zeliger, born in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia (Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic), discusses her family life; growing up in Przemysl, Poland; pre-war antisemitism; Jewish life until 1939, and her first encounter with German police; Germans starting a series of Aktions, and establishing an orphanage for the children she found afterwards; the selection and killing of the children in her orphanage; life in the Kolomea (Kolomyia, Ukraine) ghetto; escaping with her husband to Budapest, Hungary; being placed in the Stanislawow (Ivano Frankivsk) prison; being transferred to the Lvov (L'viv) Jewish camp; transferring to Lublin, Poland; her experiences in Majdanek; moving to Łódź, Poland; leaving Poland to immigrate to Israel in 1950; and writing about her Holocaust experiences in her published book.
    Interviewee
    Hedva Zeliger
    Date
    interview:  1991 March 05
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Hedva Zeliger in Israel on March 5, 1991, 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 08:15:23
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