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Oral history interview with Lea Zalkind

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.222 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0222

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    Oral history interview with Lea Zalkind

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lea Zalkind (née Mattersdorfer), born on February 26, 1932 in Karlovac, Yugoslavia (Croatia), discusses her childhood years; her family's affluence; visiting Zagreb; cordial relations with non-Jews; the fate of her father at the hands of the Ustasha and his deportation to Zagreb, where he was executed in retaliation for a partisan attack; her landlord's mother-in-law taking her to Kranj, Slovenia; her mother's arrival three weeks later, then her grandmother's; fleeing to Trieste, Italy; being sent to Concordia, Italy; attending an Italian school; her mother working for the local police commander; obtaining false documents in a convent in Nonantola, Italy; living with a priest's sister in Fiorano until the end of the war; her grandmother's death; liberation by partisans; learning her father had been killed; moving to Modena; working with Jewish refugees; immigration to Israel in 1945; sharing her experiences with her husband, but not her children; and a 1975 visit to Karolvac and to her grandmother's grave in the village in which she hid and where they were lovingly welcomed. She also shows documents and photographs.
    Interviewee
    Lea Zalkind
    Date
    interview:  1995 October 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zalkind, Lea, 1932-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Lea Zalkind in Israel on October 26, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, 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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