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Oral history interview with Ionel Ghelman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0173 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0026

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    Oral history interview with Ionel Ghelman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ionel Ghelman, born on March 27, 1929 in Bucharest, Romania, discusses his mother’s death in 1938 and being raised by his maternal aunt; experiencing antisemitism; seeing boys in 1936 practicing to be in the Iron Guard in the future; the German occupation in 1940; the events in January 1941, including pogroms, stores being burned, and Jews being killed; ration cards and how Jews’ ration cards were half of Rumanians’ cards; the Allied bombardments of Bucharest from late 1943 to early 1944; seeing Russian tanks and troops in August 1944; leaving school in 1946 to work in a locomotive factory; rejecting the Communist Youth Party and feeling a connection to Zionist Hashomer Hatzair; going to Bukovina to prepare for kibbutz in Israel; the banning of Zionist organizations in 1949; being a draftsman for oil pipeline company from 1948 to 1950; marrying a Romanian woman in 1956; his children; being expelled from the Communist Party because parents went to Israel; getting visas for Hungary, France, and Germany in 1976; going to New York in April 21, 1977 with the help of HIAS; and settling in Washington and working for Bechtel.
    Interviewee
    Ionel Ghelman
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  1996 May 09
    Geography
    creation: Silver Spring (Md.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ghelman, Ionel, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Gail Schwartz, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on May 9, 1996 in Silver Spring, MD. The interview was transferred to the Archives on May 9, 1996.
    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 08:12:00
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