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Oral history interview with Lidia Siciarz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.9 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0405

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    Oral history interview with Lidia Siciarz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lidia Siciarz, born on May 16, 1930 in Kraków, Poland, describes her family and growing up as an only child; moving to Łacko, Poland and not participating in the religious community; her father’s mobilization into the Polish Army on September 1, 1939 and then being taken as a prisoner of war by the Soviet Army; leaving with her mother and other members of her family for Pinsk, Poland (now Belarus) to live with her mother's family; her father escaping the prisoner of war camp and rejoining his family in Pinsk; her family moving to the Ukraine to avoid her father's recapture by the Russians; the Nazi invasion of Ukraine in June 1941; her mother getting notified in January 1942 that the local Jews were being deported; hiding in the local hospital for several weeks with the head nurse Sister Jadwiga; going to an orphanage in Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), where she hid in the orphanage as a Polish Catholic and assumed the name Marysia Borowska; her transfer to another orphanage in Poland because there were accusations of her being Jewish; Ukrainian nationalists attacking the orphanage in early fall of 1943; going to orphanages located in a former part of the Warsaw ghetto on Wolnonc Street and then to Kostowiec, Poland after the Warsaw ghetto uprising; reuniting with her father on May 5, 1945; discovering that her mother had been denounced to the Gestapo in the summer of 1942 and was killed; moving to Hirschberg (Jelenia Gora), Poland with her family; marrying Leszek Siciarz and immigrating to Israel in 1957; and immigrating to the United States in 1969 with her husband and two children.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Lidia K. Siciarz
    Interviewer
    Katie Davis
    Date
    interview:  2000 January 11

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Siciarz, Lidia, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Katie Davis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Lidia Siciarz on January 11, 2000.
    Funding Note
    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 08:02:39
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