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Oral history interview with Efraim Fishman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.290 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0290

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    Oral history interview with Efraim Fishman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Efraim Fishman, born in Dubrovitsa, Poland (now Dubrovytsia, Ukraine) in 1922, discusses his family life; being the oldest of five children; attending a Tarbut school then gymnasium in Rivne, Ukraine; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, Betar, and Mizrachi; the Soviet occupation; being interrogated by the NKVD due to his Zionist activities; the German invasion; fleeing to Korets', Ukraine; doing forced labor for the German Army; returning to Rivne; life in the Rovna ghetto; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a non-Jewish friend hiring him to tutor her children and giving him her husband's birth certificate; hiding in her attic during a mass killing in November 1941; traveling to Kovel, Ukraine in March 1942; working in a train station for a German cattle transport company; assisting partisans by providing them with train schedules; working disguised as a Pole in Kovel; working to prepare an airport for large aircraft by reading and interpreting plans in Odessa, Ukraine; being recruited into the Polish army; being sent for training to Charkov (Kharkiv), Ukraine and Lusk, Poland (Luts'k, Ukraine) through November 1944; traveling to Warsaw, Poland, Poznan, Poland, Kohlberg, Germany, Stettin (Szczecin), Poland, and the Oder river; leaving the Polish army; reconnecting with his brother; moving to Vienna, Austria, where he participated in organizing a Hebrew transition school; moving to Palestine in 1947; and the story of his sister's survival.
    Interviewee
    Efraim Fishman
    Date
    interview:  1996 August 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Fishman, Efraim, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Efraim Fishman in Israel on August 30, 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 08:16:00
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