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Oral history interview with Alexander Avnon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.184 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0184

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    Oral history interview with Alexander Avnon

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alexander Avnon, born Alexander Silberstein March 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses moving to Otwock, Poland 1936; life in the Warsaw ghetto 1940; being smuggled out of the ghetto; living with a Christian woman; traveling to Moscow, Soviet Union; being in jail for vagrancy; being sent to a Polish orphanage; returning to Warsaw in 1945; and immigrating to Palestine (Israel).
    Interviewee
    Mr. Alexander Avnon
    Date
    interview:  1994 February 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Avnon, Alexander, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Alexander Avnon in Israel on February 10, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on March 1, 1995, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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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