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Oral history interview with Guta Goldstein

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.26 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0026

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    Oral history interview with Guta Goldstein
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    Interview Summary
    Guta Goldstein (née Koppel), born in Łódź, Poland in 1930, describes her father, who was a textile merchant and came from a large Orthodox family; being only ten years old when the Łódź ghetto was established; her escape from a “children’s camp” during one of the Aktions; the Judenrat chief, Chaim Rumkowski, urging parents to give up their small children; being deported with her mother to Auschwitz concentration camp in August of 1944; their arrival and her first impressions of the camp; still looking like a young child, but surviving several selections; being taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in November of 1944; being taken to Mehltheuer, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, where she worked as a chambermaid for German officers; being liberated on April 16, 1945 by the United States Army; and immigrating to Australia in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Guta Goldstein
    Interviewer
    Rita Lapidus
    Date
    interview:  1996 January 21

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Goldstein, Guta, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview on January 21, 1996, in Melbourne, Australia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired the tape of the interview in July 1996.
    Record last modified:
    2023-05-12 13:52:58
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