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Oral history interview with Helen Abramovitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1257.1 | RG Number: RG-50.322.0001

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    Oral history interview with Helen Abramovitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Helen Abramowitz, born in 1927 in Nevaraska, Czechoslovakia, discusses her childhood; her parents, who were both from the Bohemia region; her parents’ relocation to Nevaraska after her father graduated from medical school in Vienna; her parents’ work as doctors; attending a German public school for four years until it no longer felt safe because of the rise of antisemitism; attending a Czech public school; her parents’ separation in 1937; her mother living in Prague while she stayed with her father; her father’s immigration to the United States in 1938 after the Munich Agreement; living in Prague with her mother; going with her mother to Paris, France and then going alone to New York City (her mother later traveled to the US); attending a boarding school in Connecticut; feeling unwanted by her parents; studying at Ohio State University, where she met her husband, Chuck; getting married after graduating from college; traveling to Israel once a year; her thoughts on antisemitism; and her life in Dayton, OH.
    Interviewee
    Helen Abramovitz
    Date
    interview:  1984 July 30

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Abramovitz, Helen.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Wright State University conducted the interview with Helen Abramovitz on July 30, 1984 in preparation for the program, "Faces of the Holocaust." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a copy of the interview on July 7, 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:27:18
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