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Oral history interview with Eta Neuman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.242 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0242

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    Oral history interview with Eta Neuman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eta Neuman, born on October 12, 1926, in Poprad, Slovakia, discusses her childhood years; being thrown out of school in 1938; expulsion from Poprad on March 21, 1942; being sent to Auschwitz on March 26, 1942; witnessing women committing suicide on the electric fence; Himmler's visit and the shooting of a few women; the other prisoners; being marched to Birkenau; the Sonderkommando; being moved to block named 'Kanada'; meeting a family of Jewish dwarfs subjected to Mengele's experiments; travel by train to camps near Buchenwald and Ravensbrück; being transferred to Neustadt Glewe; liberation in April 1945; traveling to Bratislava where encountered post-war antisemitism; her activities for the Palestinian Jewish brigade in Czech Republic; helping to smuggle weapons to the Israeli Army; and immigration to Israel in September 1949.
    Interviewee
    Eta Neuman
    Date
    interview:  1995 February 16
    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
    Neuman, Eta, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Eta Neuman in Israel on February 16, 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 08:15:43
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