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Oral history interview with Roza Kent

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.335 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0335

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    Oral history interview with Roza Kent

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Roza Kent (née Rosella Kinsler), born in 1921, discusses childhood in a town near Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), the invasion first by Russians and then by Germans in 1939; the family's forced move to a ghetto, and their escape from execution by hiding in a basement; obtaining false identity papers; the escape of some family members to Palestine; the liquidation of the ghetto and the murder of its remaining occupants; experiencing both betrayal and rescue by Polish friends; her escape to the woods and hiding with partisans; her marriage to a Polish Catholic partisan; being arrested by the Gestapo; convincing a Gestapo guard to free her; finding shelter with a Gentile woman and giving birth; living under difficult conditions; the town's liberation by Russian troops in August 1944 and the conscription of her husband into the Soviet army; her husband's return; their experiences living under the Soviet government; their escape to Germany where they lived in displaced persons camps for three years; and their immigration to the United States in 1948.
    Interviewee
    Roza Kent
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1989 September 21
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kent, Roza.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Roza Kent on September 21, 1989. 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 08:44:47
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