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Oral history interview with Cipora Hurwitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.281 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0281

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    Oral history interview with Cipora Hurwitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Cipora Hurwitz (née Fedunia Rosenstein), born in 1933 in Hrubieszów, Poland, discusses her prewar family life; the arrival of the Germans and then the Russians; life in the ghetto and the role of the Judenrat; the atrocities in the ghetto including the murder of her sixteen year old brother; her eldest brother’s escape to Russia; going into hiding with her family; the murder of her parents; her time in a small work camp; her transfer to camp Budzyn; her time in Majdanek concentration camp where she worked in the central laundry; being marched out of Majdanek as the Russians advanced; collapsing during the march and being saved by two escaped political prisoners; residing with a peasant family for two weeks; traveling to Lublin, Poland; returning to Hrubieszów, Poland; returning to Lublin and going into an orphanage; reuniting with her surviving aunt and cousin; the relocation of the orphanage to Peterswaldau, Germany (Pieszyce, Poland); traveling to Łódź, Poland; immigrating to Palestine in 1947 after staying in camps in Bratislava (Slovakia), Bad Reichenhall (Germany), and Bergen-Belsen (Germany); her postwar life in Israel; and her return to Poland later in life. [Additional information can be found in Cipora Hurwitz’s autobiography “Forbidden Strawberries” https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib213537]
    Interviewee
    Cipora Hurwitz
    Date
    interview:  1996 July 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Cipora Hurwitz in Israel on July 25, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:57
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