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Oral history interview with Tamar Goldshmidt

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.348 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0348

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    Oral history interview with Tamar Goldshmidt

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tamar Goldshmidt, born in 1933 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), discusses being one of three children in an affluent family; vacations skiing and in Vienna; her brother's bar mitzvah in Piešt̕any; his immigration to Palestine shortly thereafter; attending a Jewish school; deportation to Žilina with her family in 1942; an influential uncle bribing the commander to release them; returning to Bratislava; hiding in a vineyard outside the city with assistance from her uncle; returning a few weeks later; hiding in an apartment owned by her father's friend; her older sister moving to live with a non-Jewish family in 1944; obtaining false papers; hiding in a factory during German searches; capture; deportation with her parents to Sered; separation from her father when they were transferred to Theresienstadt a few weeks later; forced agricultural labor; attending school; observing a Red Cross visit; liberation by Soviet troops; she and her mother traveling to Prague, Brno, then Bratislava; reunion with her sister and father; joining Maccabi; immigrating to Israel with her youth group in 1949; her family joining her shortly thereafter; marriage; and the births of her two daughters.
    Interviewee
    Tamar Goldshmidt
    Date
    interview:  1998 May 28
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Goldshmidt, Tamar.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Tamar Goldshmidt in Israel on May 28, 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 08:16:20
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