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Oral history interview with Marsha Segall

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.43 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0043

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    Oral history interview with Marsha Segall

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marsha Segall, born January 16, 1922, describes her early life in Scholai, Lithuania; her family and education; antisemitism; the Jewish boycott of German goods in 1933; life during the Russian Occupation in 1940; the German attack on Lithuania in June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; the arrest and execution of her father; their relationship with their servant; the billeting of German troops in their home; the creation of the ghetto in September 1941; living in the Troki ghetto; the Judenrat and public hangings; the transport of children from the ghetto on November 5, 1943; contact with partisans outside the ghetto; working as secretary for the Judenrat and her attitude towards the Judenrat; escaping from the ghetto with her husband in November 1943; hiding with a Lithuanian in the countryside; being found and arrested in early 1944; her imprisonment; going to the Scholai prison; interrogations and her work repairing German army uniforms; briefly returning to the Troki ghetto in May 1944; being sent to Stutthof concentration camp in July 1944; her first impressions of the camp; the suspension of menstruation; food rations; roll calls; categories of prisoners; being part of a work group outside the camp; living in tents and digging trenches; the journey to Rendaels near Wistula; medical problems; her work chopping wood; the evacuation of camp as Russians approached in January 1945; conditions during the march; frostbite; the fate of her mother and sister; successfully escaping; receiving assistance from local Poles and a Russian women's work camp; receiving medical assistance for frostbite from a German unit; evacuation as a German civilian from the area to Gdeieia; receiving medical treatment at Gdeieia hospital; amputation; being evacuated aboard the Deutschland and two other ships to Rigan Island; being in a Nazi party hospital at Bergen February-June 1945; continuing to pass as non-Jewish; liberation by Russians in May 1945; revealing her Jewish identity; working as an interpreter to a Russian unit; making clothes from parachute silk; acting as an interpreter in the interrogation of German SS suspects; deciding not to return to Lithuania; travelling with a friend to Hannover via Berlin in December 1945; the chaotic state of Europe; finding friends in a Jewish refugee camp; going to Munich; American antisemitism; her husband's survival and reuniting with him in January 1946; mental and physical condition of camp inmates; the difficulties of immigrating to Palestine; going through Austria to Italy; obtaining Hungarian passports; obtaining a Rhodesian residence permit in 1947; the impact of the war had on her; and her belief that a successful Jewish revolt against Nazis was impossible.
    Interviewee
    Marsha Segall
    Date
    interview:  1985 December

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    6 sound cassettes (90 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Segall, Marsha, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Imperial War Museum
    Provenance
    The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Marsha Segall from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:17:31
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