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Oral history interview with Chana Birnbaum

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.1 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0001

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    Oral history interview with Chana Birnbaum

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    Interview Summary
    Chana Birnbaum (née Jacobnson), born in 1930 in Piliza, Poland, describes her six siblings; the beginning of the war; hiding in the forests then a basement with her family; being helped by friends to cross the border into Savjirose; going by train to Zapnovitch; her parents living in the ghetto while she and her siblings went to a transfer camp; her father’s death in Auschwitz; arriving in Brande concentration camp (in Prądy, Opolskie, Poland); being sent to Johannisdorf (Janislawice); the camp closing and being sent to Annaberg then Viletendorf and Hundsfeld; getting diphtheria and being saved by a doctor; being sent to three other camps, including Peterswaldan (possibly Peterswaldau concentration camp); working in a factory of explosives; being sent to Kaffia Grosshausen; being liberated from Peterswaldan; her cousin finding her and taking her to Sopnovitz (possibly Sosnowiec, Poland); finding more family; going to Zehlendorf in Berlin, Germany; going to find her sisters in Bergen-Belsen, where they were being looked after by Mrs. Rosensaft; attending school until she made Aliya in 1946; going to a Kibbutz in Israel and joining her sister later in Tel Aviv; and getting married in 1950.
    Interviewee
    Chana Birnbaum
    Interviewer
    Rosensaft, The Honorable Hadassah
    Date
    interview:  1991 October 28

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    1 videocassette (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Hadassah Rosensaft conducted the interview with Chana Birnbaum on October 28, 1991, as part of a project to document individuals' experiences as children during the Holocaust.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:26:00
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