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Oral history interview with Rachel Linial

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.292 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0292

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    Oral history interview with Rachel Linial

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rachel Linial, born in December 1926 in Zdunska Wola, Poland, near Łódź, Poland, discusses her early family life; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; vacationing in Andrzejów; the German invasion; her parents hiding their valuables; eviction from their home; moving to her aunt's home inside the Łódź ghetto; retrieving their valuables; trading them for necessities; her work in a kitchen in the Łódź ghetto; sharing extra food with her family; Chaim Rumkowsky; contracting typhus and hospitalization in the Łódź ghetto; hiding with her sister during round-ups; being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944; working in a munitions factory for 10 days; being transferred with her sister to Bergen-Belsen; being sent to another ammunitions factory in Thuringer; being transferred by train to Elsnig; German guards leaving them extra food; a train transport; escaping during Allied bombings; being captured by German soldiers; her sister being wounded; their separation; liberation by Soviet troops; locating her sister in a Magdeburg hospital and her sister’s death; traveling to Hildesheim, Germany and Antwerp, Belgium; being quarantined in ʻAtlit; immigrating to Palestine; and not sharing her experiences, even with her children.
    Interviewee
    Rachel Linial
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Rachel Linial in Israel on October 10, 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 08:16:01
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