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Oral history interview with Richard Vanger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.388 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0388

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    Oral history interview with Richard Vanger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Richard Vanger (né Ryszard Wanger) discusses his childhood in Warsaw, Poland; pre-war antisemitism and violence; Polish-Jewish relations after the German occupation; fleeing east with his family toward the Soviet-occupied part of Poland; crossing the border between the two zones; conditions his family experienced while fleeing; settling in the village of Stolowicz (Stalovichy, Belarus); the German invasion in 1941; trying to flee farther eastward; being overrun by the German forces in Minsk, Belarus; returning to Stolowicz; relocating into the ghetto; living conditions in the ghetto; his father’s friendly relations with Poles in the town; his parents’ awareness of what was happening to Jews and their plans for him; Polish-Jewish relations during the war; hiding with a Polish woman named Mrs. Tereza and her daughter Jelizaveta Dolenga-Vzhzosek (USHMM interview RG-50.674*0009); being hidden by several different Polish families in surrounding towns and villages; his survival methods including dressing like a girl and acting like a Catholic Pole; the several times he came close to being discovered; the end of the war; reuniting with his aunt who returned from Siberia; living in a Jewish orphanage; immigrating to England; immigrating to Israel in 1970; reuniting with Jelizaveta in 1990; his ongoing relationship with Jelizaveta’s family; differences between his and Jelizaveta’s testimony; his views on antisemitism; and messages he has for contemporary teachers in Poland and Belarus who teach about the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Richard Vanger
    Interviewer
    Nathan Beyrak
    Date
    interview:  2011 October 19
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital files : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Vanger, Richard.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Richard Vanger on Oct. 19, 2011.
    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 08:16:34
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