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Oral history interview with Malka Nomberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.331 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0331

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    Oral history interview with Malka Nomberg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Malka Nomberg (née Weissrosen), born in 1930 in Sandomierz, Poland, describes growing up in a wealthy and prominent family in her community; the German invasion of her town and her family’s decision to hide in their cellars; the Germans discovering their hiding place; the transport of her entire family except for herself and her mother, who remained in hiding; she and her mother being discovered and sent to work at a local high school turned labor camp; being transported to Starczewice, Poland to a weapons factory until 1942; being deported to Auschwitz in 1944; living in Birkenau and meeting her sister there; her transfer to Ravensbrück; the march to Malchow and the Germans fleeing from the oncoming Soviets during the march; witnessing the plunder and raping of a town by the Russians; returning to her hometown with her sister; and sailing from Hamburg, Germany to Palestine where she married and had children.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Malka Nomberg
    Date
    interview:  1998 January 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Nomberg, Malka, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Malka Nomberg in Israel on January 15, 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 08:16:14
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