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Oral history interview with Rachel Bielicka Gurdus and Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinska

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0184 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0401

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    Oral history interview with Rachel Bielicka Gurdus and Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinska

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    Interview Summary
    Rachel Bielicka Gurdus and Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinskaya discuss first meeting each other through family connections in the Vilnius ghetto; Rachel living with her boyfriend’s family; Sulamif’s family’s adoption of Rachel; staying together when they were forced into wagons leaving the ghetto; helping each other to survive the war; Sulamif becoming extremely ill after the war and Rachel taking care of her; Sulamif meeting her future husband, an army officer, during her liberation; keeping up a relationship between themselves and their families; not sharing much with their families about their experiences; and the “accidental” survival of all Holocaust survivors.
    Interviewee
    Sulamif S. Zhabinskaya
    Rachel B. Gurdus
    Interviewer
    Katie Davis
    Date
    interview:  1999 August 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Katie Davis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Rachel Bielicka Gurdus and Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinska on August 17, 1999.
    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 08:02:37
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