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Oral history interview with Ruchama Pinkof

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.352 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0352

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    Oral history interview with Ruchama Pinkof

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ruchama Pinkof, born in 1922 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, discusses being the youngest of three children; her mother's death when she was two; attending Jewish, then public school; her father's remarriage; a troubled relationship with her stepmother; participating in Hechalutz; attending a boarding school in 1937; visiting her family on holidays; living briefly with her paternal grandparents; German invasion; her brothers' participation in the underground; one brother wanting to put her in hiding, and her refusal to leave her younger half-siblings; deportation to Westerbork; a close relationship with her cousin; forced agricultural labor; caring for a group of children; hospitalization for polio; her grandparents' arrival; her grandfather's death; transfer to Bergen-Belsen with her grandmother, half-sister, aunt, and father; her older brother's arrival; her aunt and grandmother's release for immigration to Palestine; caring for her half-sister when she was ill; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; transfer to Celle; returning to Amsterdam; transfer to a hospital in Eindhoven where her uncle was a physician; learning one of her older brothers and her father had been killed; transfer to the Jewish hospital in Amsterdam, then by the Red Cross to a sanitarium in Davos; remaining for over two years supported by the Joint; her other older brother's immigration to Palestine; meeting her future husband and immigrating to Israel; her firm belief that she would survive the concentration camps; and her continuing health problems resulting from her experiences. (She shows photographs.)
    Interviewee
    Ruchama Pinkof
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    14 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
    Pinkof, Ruchama.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ruchama Pinkof in Israel on July 26, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:21
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