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Oral history interview with Regina Spiegel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.78 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0078

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    Oral history interview with Regina Spiegel

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    Interview Summary
    Regina Spiegel (née Gutman), born in Radom, Poland in 1926, describes her childhood; her three sisters and two brothers; the German invasion in September 1939 and being the only survivor from her immediate family; being at the mercy of the Germans; having to move to a small apartment and give up their valuables; the restrictions placed on Jews; the creation of the ghetto in 1940; life in the ghetto and bribing a guard to escape; living with her sister in Pionki, Poland; bringing other Jews into the village; working in a labor camp; the camp allowing her sister to bring in her baby boy; the deportations to Treblinka; the denouncement of her sister and confronting the woman responsible after the war; the closing of Pionki labor camp and being deported to Auschwitz; conditions during the journey; her experiences when she arrived in the camp; being selected to work in a munitions factory at Bergen-Belsen; the bombing of their train and being hit by shrapnel; the importance of sharing Holocaust experiences; returning to Poland after the war; and her reflections on the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Regina Spiegel
    Interviewer
    Katherine Rabinowitz
    Date
    interview:  1985 March 05

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Spiegel, Regina, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The interview with Regina Spiegel was conducted on March 5, 1985, as part of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington's oral history project to document Washington, D.C.-area survivors' experiences of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview on May 26, 1993.
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    2023-11-16 08:20:01
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