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Oral history interview with Ruth Bobek

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.357 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0357

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    Oral history interview with Ruth Bobek

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ruth Bobek, born in 1934 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), describes his assimilated, Zionist family; having a younger brother; her father’s job as an accountant; not experiencing normal schooling because there was an edict not to accept Jews in government schools; receiving home instruction; her entire family being deported to Terezín (Theresienstadt) in July 1942; living together in a house with 47 other Jews; her father living separately and being part of a work crew that built large projects in different parts of Germany; her mother being in charge of cooking and cleaning for everyone in the house; cultural life in Terezín; the Red Cross visit; working in a sewing workshop outside the ghetto fence; being liberated; returning home where she found no one; moving to Litomeritze, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic); immigrating to Israel in 1949; not feeling part of Israeli society and only feeling close to the friends she had from the Terezín house; and her life in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Ruth Bobek
    Date
    interview:  1999 November 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bobek, Ruth, 1934-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Ruth Bobek on November 18, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:23
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