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Oral history interview with Janina Wojńska

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.52 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0052

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    Oral history interview with Janina Wojńska

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Janina Wojńska, born in Milejczyce, Poland in 1919, discusses her training as a pharmacist in Brańsk, Poland; the Soviet occupation; deportations to Siberia; Jewish reactions to the Soviets; the withdrawal of Soviet forces; the arrival of German forces; ethnic tensions during the German occupation; the creation of the ghetto next to her pharmacy; hiding Jewish acquaintances in her basement; the end of the war; anti-Jewish violence after the war; and visiting the United States to reunite with the family she hid.
    Interviewee
    Janina Woinska
    Date
    interview:  1998 November 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    3 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Woinska, Janina.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:54:02
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