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Oral history interview with Edit Kosidois

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.327 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0327

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    Oral history interview with Edit Kosidois

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edit Kosidois, born in 1926 in Osek, Czechoslovkia (possibly Osek, Severočeský kraj, Czech Republic), describes her childhood; her family’s move to Prague, Czech Republic; her daily life, adolescence, social life, and first boyfriend during the years 1939-1940; the deportations in 1941; being transported with her family to the Łódź ghetto; working in a rug factory; the hanging of someone who tried to escape; her physical and mental condition; singing and reading after work; the poet Lange who died in the ghetto; food rations and the black market; her father being taken in the first selection; being sent to a straw factory where they made shoes in 1943; her illness and the lice infestation; her friendships in the ghetto; her thoughts on Rumkowski; seeing the ghetto burning in August 1944; her deportation to Auschwitz; life in the camp, including the roll calls, Kapos, and food; Mengele’s selection of her to leave the camp; her transport from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen; the difficult winter; how the SS women were crueler than the men; her transport to Salzwedel after spending a winter in Bergen-Belsen; becoming a sort of waitress at the new camp; working in an ammunition factory in camp Neuengamme; becoming ill with a skin infection; the bombing of the camp in March 1945; being liberated by Americans on April 14, 1945; being taken out of the camp and housed at a German air force base; being taken to Heidelberg, Germany and returning to Prague at the end of June; getting married after the war but divorcing; her overall thoughts about her war experiences; her move to Israel and marriage to another survivor; and deciding not to have children because of the cruelty of the world.
    Interviewee
    Edit Kosidois
    Date
    interview:  1998 March 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    16 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Edit Kosidois in Israel on March 25, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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 08:16:13
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