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Oral history interview with Yafa Rais

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.316 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0316

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    Oral history interview with Yafa Rais

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Yafa Rais, born in 1923 in Belzec, Poland, describes having a happy childhood; her work on a Ukrainian farm; making contacts with people on the farm and receiving help from them; her transport to Budzyn I and Budzyn II in the Arbeitzlager in February 1944; leaving Budzyn and going by foot to Majdanek; how her family managed to survive on their march from Majdanek to Auschwitz; leaving Auschwitz for Bergen-Belsen; going into a displaced persons camp at the end of the war; marrying in 1946; and illegally going to Israel in January 1949.
    Interviewee
    Yafa Rais
    Date
    interview:  1996 December 12
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Rais, Yafa.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yafa Rais in Israel on December 12, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:09
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