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Oral history interview with Bozenna Gilbride

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.32 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0032

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    Oral history interview with Bozenna Gilbride

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Bozenna Gilbride, née Urbonowicz, discusses her childhood in Wolyn, Poland (present day Volhynia, Ukraine); her Christian farming parents; how her father hid Jews in a shed on his farm early in World War II; escaping after Ukrainians burned her family’s farm and their village; immigrating to Germany, unaware of what was happening there; working in a factory making leather goods for German soldiers; working in a slave labor camp in Chemnitz; contracting TB; how her mother was suspected of being in the Polish underground and was sent to Ravensbrück, where she was sterilized; how her mother was sent to Gross-Rosen; her feelings about being separated from her mother; the arrival of American troops; the behavior of German citizens; living in a displaced persons camp in Leipzig from 1945 until the beginning of 1947; immigrating to the United States; and her mother’s difficulty in obtaining a visa to join the family in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride
    Interviewer
    Anthony DiIorio
    Date
    interview:  1992 April 15

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gilbride, Bozenna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Anthony Dilorio, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project, conducted the interview with Bozenna Gilbride in Garden City, NJ on April 15, 1992.
    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 08:23:38
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