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Oral history interview with Bella Mischkinsky

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0109 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0017

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    Oral history interview with Bella Mischkinsky

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Bella Mischkinsky discusses her childhood in Łódź, Poland; traveling to the Russian-occupied territory with her father; being taken in by a woman in the ghetto of Oashmiani; antisemitism in Poland; living in different ghettos; meeting her husband in Kaiserwald; being transported to Stutthof and then Magdeburg; her liberation and her life in a war zone; reuniting with her family; her job helping others immigrate to the United States; her own immigration to the United States; living in Peoria, Illinois, and then moving to New York; her life in New York; the process for seeking restitution for her forced labor; coping with her memory of the Holocaust; her views on the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement; the loss of her first husband and her marriage to another Holocaust survivor; traveling throughout the world; and revisiting the ghettos where she once lived.
    Interviewee
    Mrs. Bella Mischkinsky
    Interviewer
    Arwin Donohue
    Date
    interview:  1998 June 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 sound cassettes (74 min.).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Arwin Donohue, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Bella Mischkinsky on June 10, 1998 in Gaithersburg, MD.
    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:
    2022-07-28 18:28:07
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