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Oral history interview with Ada Matulski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.346 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0346

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    Oral history interview with Ada Matulski

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ada Matulski (née Greenglass), born in Warsaw, Poland, in December 1933, describes growing up with her parents and her pleasant childhood; her neighborhood, where she attended preschool and spent her summers on the countryside until the war broke out; the Nazis confiscating all her family’s belongings and having to move into the Warsaw Ghetto; how in the ghetto parents would hide their children until they returned from work; witnessing terrible sights in the ghetto; her father smuggling her out of the ghetto and staying with a local family using a false ID; how after the Warsaw uprising the Germans exiled the entire population; being forced to leave the family she was staying with because they went to live with their antisemitic relatives in a village; going to another village where she told the people there a made up story and they let her stay; attending church with these people and living with them for almost a year; going to Grójec, where a local family adopted her; leading a normal life, attending school, and doing rather well but living in constant fear of her adoptive father; leaving the village in 1947 by telling a neighbor that she was Jewish and being taken to a Warsaw Jewish institution; developing typhoid fever and being hospitalized; reuniting with her uncle in the hospital; immigrating in 1950 to Israel, where she joined the army, went to nursing school, got married, and had a family; the difficulty she had adjusting to Israel; not talking about her war experiences for many years; and her on-going attempts to hide her constant anxiety about the safety of her family.
    Interviewee
    Ada Matulski
    Date
    interview:  1998 May 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    5 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 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
    Matulski, Ada, 1933-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ada Matulski in Israel on May 14, 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 08:16:19
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