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Oral history interview with Eta Peleg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.247 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0247

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    Oral history interview with Eta Peleg

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    Interview Summary
    Eta Peleg (née Landau), born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, describes being the oldest of five children; her parents not being very religious; her large extended family in Bardejov; attending public school and her expulsion in 1939 due to anti-Jewish regulations; confiscation of their home and business; hiding during round-ups for deportation; one sister escaping to Hungary; being rounded-up with her sisters to Poprad, Slovakia in early 1942; her deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a cousin greeting them; her brief hospitalization; the trauma of her sister's selection for gassing; her assignment sorting clothing in Canada Kommando; smuggling extra food she found to friends; volunteering to carry dead bodies for extra food and privileges; her reassignment to a lice removal unit, then to the kitchen in late 1944; their evacuation in January 1945; bringing extra food from the kitchen; escaping from the death march; locals assisting her; traveling to Katowice, Poland; liberation by Soviet troops; barely avoiding sexual assault by Soviet soldiers; returning to Bardejov; learning she was the sole survivor of her immediate and extended family; working in Prague, Czech Republic; her marriage in September 1946; her son's birth; immigrating to Israel; and her daughter's birth in 1950.
    Interviewee
    Eta Peleg
    Date
    interview:  1994 November 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Peleg, Eta, 1921-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Eta Peleg in Israel on November 11, 1994. 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 08:15:45
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