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Oral history interview with Itamar Orian

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.371 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0371

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    Oral history interview with Itamar Orian

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Itamar Orian, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, describes living with his educated middle-class parents; experiencing the bombing and plundering of Warsaw by German soldiers at the beginning of the war; his father being in the Polish army and being taken prisoner; living in the ghetto and his mother locking him in his room when she went out; seeing dead bodies on the street, Germans on trucks shooting people in the street, and Germans taking people away on trucks; going to live with his grandfather for a time; living in 1942 with his mother, who worked in a shop during the day while he hid in a bunker; his father’s escape in 1942; escaping the ghetto with his mother and meeting up with his father in Warsaw; his family obtaining false IDs and living in a small apartment; how when the Germans required all the men to work his family hid in a small town nearby until they were liberated by the Russians; his uncle being instrumental in obtaining a position for Itamar’s father in Wroclaw, Poland; his father’s death in 1949; his uncle helping Itamar and his mother return to Warsaw in 1952; studying engineering in Warsaw; immigrating to Israel with his mother in 1956; his Christian friend who saved many Jews; and his views on the sources of antisemitism in Poland.
    Interviewee
    Itamar Orian
    Interviewer
    Nathan Beyrak
    Date
    interview:  2000 March 16
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Orian, Itamar, 1936-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Itamar Orian on March 16, 2000. 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 08:16:28
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