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Oral history interview with Jaffa Neuman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.356 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0356

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    Oral history interview with Jaffa Neuman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jaffa Neuman, born on December 1, 1919 in Lask, Poland, describes being one of seven sisters; going from an early age to a training farm of the youth movement near Warsaw, which was meant to prepare participants to go to Palestine; how in 1938 anti-Jewish measures began in Lask and in 1942 her entire family was sent to the Łódź ghetto; the Nazi-created ghetto in Lask and the Judenrat; the selection in the Lask Ghetto, during which her parents were sent to Chelmno and she and three of her sisters were sent to the Łódź ghetto; working in nearby Kolumna; staying with her sisters after the Łódź ghetto was liquidated; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were processed and remained for two weeks; being sent to Bergen-Belsen, where they remained for two months; being sent with her sisters to Geislingen an der Steige, Germany, where they worked in an airplane parts factory for five months; how the factory came under heavy Allied bombardment and how the workers were put on trains that moved back and forth in an attempt to avoid the bombs; being evacuated to Dachau; being liberated by the American Army; how she and her sister, Rachel, spent two years after the war waiting to immigrate to Palestine; spending a year in a detention camp in Cyprus; and arriving in Palestine in 1948 when it was still under British rule.
    Interviewee
    Jaffa Neuman
    Date
    interview:  1999 November 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

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

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Neuman, Jaffa, 1919-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Jaffa Neuman on November 11, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on August 31, 2001.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:16:23
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