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Oral history interview with Helen Spitzer Tichauer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.345 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0462

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    Oral history interview with Helen Spitzer Tichauer

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    Interview Summary
    Helen Spitzer Tichauer, born in 1918, discusses her journey to and arrival in Auschwitz concentration camp from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; her first impressions of Auschwitz; the internal organization of the camp and the various jobs she had there, including working in a demolition crew and painting stripes on prisoner uniforms; the selections of women to go to the gas chambers; becoming ill with typhus but recuperating from her illness with the help of friends; her relationship to some of the female guards at Auschwitz; her transfer to Birkenau; the functions of different offices in the camp; roll calls in camp; getting food parcels in the camp and exchanges for extra food; the administration of the hospital; sending reports about the status of the camp to Berlin; a model of the camp that she made; the distribution of goods in the camp; a friend's unsuccessful attempt to escape; and how punishment was directed in the camp.
    Interviewee
    Helen S. Tichauer
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2000 September 07

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Helen Spitzer Tichauer in New York, N.Y., on September 7, 2000. The interview was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 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 08:03:00
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