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Oral history interview with Genia Brix

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.288 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0288

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    Oral history interview with Genia Brix

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Genia Brix, born in Szydlowiec, Poland on February 2, 1922, discusses her family life and schooling; belonging to the Hehalutz youth movement; the arrival of the Germans; establishment of the Judenrat and the Jewish police; being mobilized to work for the Germans; the work camp, Wolanów; traveling to the village of Skarzysko, Poland with her brother; her work altering clothes; three different work places, Werk A, B, and C; being evacuated to Czestochowa, Poland by train and being sent to Buchenwald, where the men in the group were left; being sent to Bergen-Belsen with the other women on the train; life in Bergen-Belsen; arriving in Würzburg, Germany; the lack of food and inmates being transferred elsewhere; a forced march to Allach concentration camp; contracting typhoid fever; the arrival of the Americans; reuniting with her brother; her time in Germany after liberation; meeting her husband; immigrating to Israel aboard the Exodus and being interned as an illegal immigrant; arriving in Israel on May 14, 1948; and the psychological effects of her experiences.
    Interviewee
    Genia Brix
    Date
    interview:  1996 August 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Brix, Genia, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Genia Brix in Israel on August 1, 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 08:15:59
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