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Oral history interview with Livia Grunfeld

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.319 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0319

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    Oral history interview with Livia Grunfeld

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    Interview Summary
    Livia Grunfeld (née Samuel), born on June 10, 1925 in Micula, Romania, discusses her childhood in Micula; the events that transpired after Transylvania was ceded to Hungary in 1940; one of her brothers being deported to a labor camp; living in Budapest, Hungary while the city was under German occupation; hiding her identity in order to work; the false papers and assistance she received from Raoul Wallenberg and Swedish diplomats; working as a nurse in the Budapest ghetto; liberation; reuniting with her sister and brother; her marriage and the years she and her husband spent trying to leave Communist Romania; the family's immigration to the United States in 1964; their life in New York; the tragic loss of her older son; and her move to California in 1979.
    Interviewee
    Livia Grunfeld
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1998 August 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Livia Grunfeld on August 26, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2001.
    Funding Note
    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 08:44:43
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