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Oral history interview with Ewa Janik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.214 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0214

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    Oral history interview with Ewa Janik

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ewa Janik, born in 1942 in Częstochowa, Poland, discusses her childhood in an unidentified ghetto in occupied Poland; her father's involvement in the underground; being given by her parents to a Catholic Polish couple, who were also part of the underground, when the ghetto was liquidated; her father's death; being separated from her mother; being brought up as a Catholic by the family that sheltered her; a meeting at age 16 with a woman who gave her a letter from her birth mother who was living in the United States; her adopted parents' denial of the facts of her birth; her family life; her move with her husband and children to the United States; meeting her birth mother; the emotionally complex relationships she has with both her birth and adopted mothers; and her lack of either a Jewish or Catholic identification.
    Interviewee
    Ewa Janik
    Date
    interview:  1997 March 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Janik, Ewa.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ewa Janik on March 23, 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    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 08:44:20
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