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Oral history interview with Sara Peri

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.302 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0302

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    Oral history interview with Sara Peri

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sara “Sabina” Kleinman, born in 1939 in Lublin, Poland, describes her parents’ history; her father being sent to a camp and his death; she and her mother escaping and being taken in by a peasant for a couple of months; hiding in a forest; her mother meeting with partisans but refusing to separate from Sabina; being sent with her mother to the Budzyn camp; how her early camp experiences shaped her character; her relationships with the other children; being sent to Majdanek and separated from her mother, who was sent to Auschwitz; an SS guard taking a liking to her and giving her extra food; being evacuated from Majdanek by bus with other Jewish children and old people; how the Russians intercepted and took the children and old people to the Red Cross; being sent to an orphanage, where her mother eventually found her; her mother remarrying; immigrating to Israel; and finishing school and becoming a nurse.
    Interviewee
    Sara Peri
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 31
    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
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Peri, Sara, 1939-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Sara Peri in Israel on October 31, 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 08:16:04
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