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Oral history interview with Mimi Kanner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.328 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0328

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    Oral history interview with Mimi Kanner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mimi Kanner (née Menucha Yurfest), born on May 1, 1934 in Chelm, Poland, discusses her childhood in Chelm; her memories of antisemitism; the bombings of Zamosc during the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939; her family's escape east; the family being sent to Siberia in 1941 to work in forced labor camps; their arduous journey home; her plan to immigrate to Israel to live on a kibbutz, which was forbidden by her father; her family surviving the post-war train pogroms, in which returning Jews were thrown from trains; her experiences in an Austrian displaced persons camp; and her immigration to the United States in 1951.
    Interviewee
    Mimi Kanner
    Date
    interview:  2000 October 25
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kanner, Mimi.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Mimi Kanner on October 25, 2000. 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 08:44:45
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