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Oral history interview with Chava Livni

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.224 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0224

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    Oral history interview with Chava Livni

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Chava Livni (née Eva Furst), born in 1926 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), discusses her childhood years; her upper class, assimilated family; attending German schools; joining Hachsharah; experiences in the underground finding hiding places for people; forging identification papers and helping refugees who arrived from Poland; partisans who joined the underground; the self-imposed tax by Jews to help underground; her family going into hiding in a village at the end of summer 1944; being transported to Auschwitz; the selection process and conditions in the camp; being taken to Freiburg, Germany to work in an airplane parts factory; being sent to Mauthausen; liberation by Americans on May 5, 1945; returning to Bratislava; traveling to Budapest, Hungary to join an organization to help youth to prepare for aliya to Israel; returning to Bratislava, where she organized a children's home; and immigration to Israel.
    Interviewee
    Chava Livni
    Date
    interview:  1995 October 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Livni, Chava, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chava Livni 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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    2023-11-16 08:15:37
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