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Oral history interview with Rachel Ziontz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.284 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0284

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    Oral history interview with Rachel Ziontz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rachel Ziontz, born in Zamosć, Poland in 1931, describes being one of three children; attending first grade in a Polish school; the German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family to a nearby village; returning home; ghettoization; moving to an aunt's home in Szczelatyn, Poland; a round-up to Grabowiec, Poland; the family being chosen for farm work by a German farmer who knew them; her parents paying a farmer to hide her and her younger brother; overhearing that all the Jews had been killed; the farmer telling them he was taking them to their parents; jumping from the horse carriage en route (her brother didn't jump); seeking her parents in Hrubieszów, Poland; a volksdeutsch who was a family friend briefly hiding her; staying with a group of Jews working in a mill; discovering four Jewish boys hiding in a barn and staying with them; smuggling themselves into a work camp; leaving by herself when the camp was liquidated; a Polish woman obtaining a Polish birth certificate for her; living with villagers; her hospitalization in Zamosć; living with another Polish family; liberation by Soviet troops; remaining with the family for over a year; deciding to "not be Jewish"; conversion; an uncle locating her through the Joint; meeting him in Lublin, Poland; being moved to Jordanbad displaced persons camp; returning to Judaism; going to Marseille, France in 1946; her illegal immigration to Palestine by ship; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus for seven months; transferring to a kibbutz; defending it during the Arab-Israeli war; her marriage in 1952; the births of her three sons; sharing her story with her children; visiting Zamosć; and feeling guilt over leaving her brother.
    Interviewee
    Rachel Ziontz
    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
    2 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ziontz, Rachel, 1931-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Rachel Ziontz in Israel on July 25, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, 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 08:15:58
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