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Oral history interview with Frida Adler Wallenstein

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.030.0242

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    Oral history interview with Frida Adler Wallenstein

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frida Adler Wallenstein, born in 1926 in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), describes her family; moving to Belgium when she was two-and-a-half years old; her family having to register as Jews once the war began; buying food and clothing off the black market; moving to a farm and taking on false identities; returning to Brussels and remaining in hiding in the last few months of the war; the capture, deportation, and death of her mother and sisters; reuniting with her father and then immigrating to the United States to settle in Cleveland, Ohio; her memories of people making false identification cards; working as a maid during the war as part of her cover story; and the memories of her day of liberation.
    Interviewee
    Frida A. Wallenstein
    Interviewer
    Linda G. Kuzmack
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 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
    Restrictions on use. Interview cannot be used for sale in the Museum Shop. Interview cannot be used by a third party for creation of a work for commercial purposes.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Linda Kuzmack, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Frida Adler Wallenstein on November 1, 1990.
    Funding Note
    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 08:01:33
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