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Oral history interview with Libi Epshtein

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.229 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0229

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    Oral history interview with Libi Epshtein

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Libi Epshtein (née Libiena Haikowa), born on February 25, 1923 in Nová Paka, Czech Republic, discusses her family's assimilation; her family moving to Prague, Czech Republic; her siblings; the German arrival on March 15, 1939; the passage of anti-Jewish laws; managing a small office, which was a front for a black market in gasoline and other products; being transported to Łódź, Poland; life in the Łódź ghetto; the death of her parents in the Łódź ghetto; her depression after the death of her parents; contracting typhoid; work in a phone repair shop in the ghetto; work in a textile shop in the ghetto; her marriage; role of the Jewish ghetto police; mail service in the ghetto; how she and a selected group managed to get housing in the empty hospital; being deported to Oranienburg; people in the camp including the SS women and Kapos; being sent to camp Wittenberg in Germany; the arrival of a group of Romani women from Czechoslovakia; and the end of the war from her own perspective.
    Interviewee
    Libi Epshtein
    Date
    interview:  1995 March 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Epshtein, Libi, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Libi Epshtein in Israel on March 30, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 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 08:15:39
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