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Oral history interview with Sophie Roth

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.96 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0096

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    Oral history interview with Sophie Roth

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sophie Roth, born in Zloczow, Poland, describes being one of four children in a religious family; the German bombing and invasion in 1939 and the killing of doctors and teachers by Germans, aided by Poles and Ukrainians; working in forced labor camps in Lazczow and Kosice until 1942 when she was shot and lost a leg; how a Polish teenager, whom she tutored, traveled to Lemberg to obtain a prosthesis for her; hiding in a fish barrel and then in a Polish peasant’s stable with her family, in exchange for money, jewelry, and the deed to their house; suffering from near-starvation and suffocating subliminal existence under a manure pile with nine other people; being forced to leave; her family finding shelter in an unheated basement of a Polish teacher, Elena Sczychovska, and her husband, who was the local police commandant; hiding with 14 people during the last year of the war; the hostility of neighbors when her family returned to their home; getting married in 1947 to a Hebrew teacher who lost his religious faith and his entire family; remaining a believer, attributing her survival to God’s miracles; the birth of her daughter in Paris, France in 1952; immigrating with aid from HIAS and the Jewish Family Service in Philadelphia; and her poems about horrendous Holocaust memories (she reads some of them during the recording).
    Interviewee
    Sophie Roth
    Date
    interview:  1988 March 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Roth, Sophie.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Sophie Roth in Philadelphia, PA on March 9, 1988. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on October 17, 2000.
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    2023-11-16 08:36:30
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