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Oral history interview with Sara Mitzenmacher

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.333 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0333

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    Oral history interview with Sara Mitzenmacher

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sara Mitzelmacher (née Uritz), born on March 15, 1915 in Kovno, Poland (now Kaunas, Lithuania), describes her lower class family; her family moving to Jurbarkas, Lithuania then Ukmerge, Lithuania; attending gymnasium in Kaunas; moving in with a Zionist aunt; returning to Ukmerge and attending a Hebrew high school; her first job as an accountant in Kaunas while she continued to study economics at the university; her sister moving to Palestine; her brother dying in the war; the Russians arriving in Kaunas and firing the Jews from their jobs; the Germans invading and setting up a ghetto; moving to the ghetto; the Jewish police and the Judenrat; working at the airport; being arrested and imprisoned for a month for attempting to sell a diamond ring; spending two years in the ghetto; Actions in the ghetto; being taken to military barracks in Kaunas, called the “Shantz suburbs”; being sent with other women to work on a farm 14 km outside the ghetto; being deported to Gefalag in Krefeld, Germany; being transported with her aunts by train to the Siauliai, Lithuania ghetto; being transported a few days later to Panevezys, Lithuania to the airfield then Stutthof; every day life in Stutthof; escaping and ending up with partisans; going to Bialystok, Poland then to Warsaw, Poland; receiving help from Haikah (Hajka) Grosman; reuniting with her sister in Łódź, Poland; receiving military training prior to going to Palestine; and her immigration to Palestine in May 1948.
    Interviewee
    Sara Mitzenmacher
    Date
    interview:  1998 January 22
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Sara Mitzenmacher in Israel on January 22, 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 08:16:15
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