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Oral history interview with Jennie Reynard

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.353 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0353

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    Oral history interview with Jennie Reynard

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jenny Reynard discusses her childhood in Velke Kapusany, Czechoslovakia (later Hungary, now Slovakia); her religious upbringing; her public school education; her family life; the changes she experienced beginning in 1943; her father's work in Hungarian labor battalions; the arrival of the Germans in 1944; her family's deportation in early 1944 to a ghetto in Husak, Slovakia; their subsequent transfer by cattle car to Auschwitz; the selection process; being separated, along with her older sister, from her mother and sister; her experiences in Auschwitz; the food; the work; the help she gave to her sister; being transferred to another labor camp where she and her sister worked in a munitions factory; the work she performed there; being transferred to Terezin; being liberated by the Soviet army; her life in Czechoslovakia after the war; moving to Israel in 1949; immigrating to the United States in 1954; her life in America.
    Interviewee
    Jennie Reynard
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Anne G. Saldinger
    Date
    interview:  2000 June 07
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Jennie Reynard on June 7, 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 08:44:53
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