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Oral history interview with Paulina Irum

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.382 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0382

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    Oral history interview with Paulina Irum

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Paulina Irum, born in 1920 in Warsaw, Poland, recounts the youngest of eight children; attending a Polish school; observing antisemitism at school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and two sisters immigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; another brother's premature death; her brother's visit from Palestine in 1938 (he urged them to immigrate but her father refused); German invasion; fleeing without her parents' knowledge; living in Białystok, Minsk, and Orsha; working at a Soviet factory; returning to Białystok; deportation with her boyfriend to a Soviet camp in Arkhangelʹsk; marriage; her husband preventing her from committing suicide when she learned she was pregnant; her son's birth (he was the only baby to survive from their camp); transfer to Samarqand, then an agricultural area; working as a nurse; returning to Samarqand in 1944, then to Warsaw after the war; learning no one from her family had survived; traveling to Łódź; sending her son with a children's group to Paris; joining him two years later; immigration to Israel; reunion with two sisters; divorce; remarriage; and the birth of another son.
    Interviewee
    Paulina Irum
    Date
    interview:  2000 October 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Irum, Paulina.
    Corporate Name
    World Hashomer Hatzair

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Paulina Irum on October 26, 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 08:16:32
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