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Oral history interview with Hana Paluch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.377 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0377

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    Oral history interview with Hana Paluch

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hana Paluch, born in 1927, discusses being one of eight children in an orthodox family; living in Będzin, Poland; attending a Jewish school; antisemitism immediately before the war; German invasion; soldiers beating her father and cutting off his beard; her family's deportation; her deportation to Grünberg; slave labor in a textile factory; a death march to Neusalz (now Nowa Sól, Poland); becoming depressed; several prisoners committing suicide; a death march to Ravensbrück, then Flossenbürg one month later; her friend sharing extra bread; train transfer to Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Sweden; illegal immigration by ship to Palestine; incarceration in Cyprus; marriage; her husband's military draft; reunion with two sisters; immigrating to Australia to join her husband's brother; returning to Israel in the 1970s; her husband's recent death; more details on life in the camps, including fasting on Yom Kippur and praying in camps; nightmares resulting from her experiences; continuing to believe in God; and sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren.
    Interviewee
    Hana Paluch
    Date
    interview:  2000 May 25
    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..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Paluch, Hana.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Hana Paluch on May 25, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:16:30
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