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Oral history interview with Maria Devinki

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.A.0432 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0002

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    Oral history interview with Maria Devinki

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Maria Devinki, born June 1, 1920 in Hannover, Germany, discusses her family’s move to central Poland; her parents’ successful business there; the Nazi invasion of Poland; how Jews were forced to live in a ghetto; having to give up her large house; her father’s deportation to Treblinka where he perished; marrying her fiancé and being hidden with family members by a Polish farmer in small underground space; traveling with her husband to Regensburg, Germany to wait for U.S. visas; and settling in Kansas City, MO.
    Interviewee
    Maria Devinki
    Interviewer
    Margaret Gonglewski
    Date
    interview:  1994 October 18
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Margaret Gonglewski, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on October 18, 1994 in Washington, DC. The interview was transferred to the Archives on February 5, 1995.
    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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