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Oral history interview with Hela Vronenberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.379 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0379

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    Oral history interview with Hela Vronenberg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hela Vronenberg, born in 1927 in Będzin, Poland, recounts being the youngest of three sisters; her family's affluence; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; her father dying from a police beating; buying food posing as a non-Jew (she was blond); selling family belongings to non-Jews; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation; her deportation to Ober Altstadt; slave labor in a weaving factory; better treatment by a German guard after she knit her a sweater; other guards giving them extra food; a prisoner nurse helping them; assistance from English and French POWs; abandonment by the guards; liberation by Soviet troops; publicly humiliating a German overseer; returning to Będzin; finding her home occupied; assistance from a former maid; living with a friend in Bytom, then relatives in Częstochowa; antisemitic harassment; learning her sisters had been killed; joining a Zionist kibbutz; meeting her future husband; illegal immigration by ship to Palestine; incarceration on Cyprus for nine months; her son's birth in 1951; her husband's death; and visiting Ober Altstadt and Poland with her son. (She shows photographs.)
    Interviewee
    Hela Vronenberg
    Date
    interview:  2000 June 15
    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
    Vronenberg, Hela.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Hela Vronenberg on June 15, 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 08:16:31
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