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Oral history interview with Irene O'Ryan

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.348 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0348

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    Oral history interview with Irene O'Ryan

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. O'Ryan's childhood in Stanisławów, Poland (now Stanislav, Ukraine); the occupation of the town by Russian troops in 1939, and by Hungarian troops in 1941. Ms. O'Ryan describes being forced with her family into the Jewish ghetto and a terrifying incident in which the entire Jewish population was taken to the cemetery where one-third were shot and killed. She discusses the forced registration of Jews in March 1942, the deportation and death of her mother, and her decision to leave her sister and go into hiding. Ms. O'Ryan describes passing as a non-Jew with false identity papers, and working at a farm in Germany where she was liberated in 1945. She discusses her experiences in displaced persons camps and her immigration to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Irene O'Ryan
    Interviewer
    Judith Antelman
    Date
    interview:  1994 April 04
    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 Irene O'Ryan on April 4, 1994. 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 08:44:51
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