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Oral history interview with Frances Hirshfeld

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0555 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0050

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    Oral history interview with Frances Hirshfeld

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frances Hirshfeld (née Frieda Miriam Rosenbloom), born in 1918, discusses her family and childhood in Opatów, Poland; moving to Zawiercie, Poland and its local Jewish population; the beginning of the war; her religious life; antisemitism; Kristallnacht; going into hiding in Ukraine and returning to Poland; the Judenrat; adjusting to anti-Jewish laws; moving into the ghetto; living conditions in the ghetto; being deported to Auschwitz in 1943; living conditions in Auschwitz; being moved to Birkenau; contracting typhoid fever and scabies; lack of medical care; bombings near the camp; returning to Auschwitz; hearing about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; working in a munitions factory; being on a death march to Ravensbrück; escaping into a forest; liberation by the Soviets; immigrating to the United States in October 1946; her husband immigrating to the U.S. in 1949; visiting Poland; her feelings about Holocaust deniers; and her life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Hirshfeld, Frances
    Interviewer
    Esther Finder
    Date
    interview:  1996 September 30

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Esther Finder, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview with Frances Hirshfeld on September 30, 1996 in Chevy Chase, MD.
    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 08:12:09
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