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Oral history interview with Sara Eisen

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.12 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0012

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    Oral history interview with Sara Eisen

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sara Eisen, born in 1923 in Charsznica, Poland, describes her family life with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters; the German occupation; the anti-Jewish laws; being taken with her sister in 1942 to a labor camp; her mother and oldest sister being taken away and never seeing them again; her father being shot by the Germans; her two brothers dying in a concentration camp; doing farm work then being assigned to the kitchen; trying to take care of the old and sick people in the camp; being transferred in October 1942 to another camp in Krakow; working in a mill making sweaters for the Germans; being hit by a German officer and being taken to the hospital and losing six teeth; visiting a second cousin who worked in a tailoring shop; being sent to Auschwitz in the summer of 1943 and the journey there; seeing the crematoriums; the lack of warm clothing; staying in Auschwitz for four weeks; avoiding being gassed and being sent with a group to Lichtewerden concentration camp; working in a spinning mill; the Czechs supervisors treating them well; being liberated by the Russians who were very nice to them and took them to German houses to take anything they needed; going to Sosnowitz (Sosnowiec), Poland; visiting her hometown but not finding any of her relatives alive; meeting her future husband Bill; going to Landsberg, Germany; going to Buffalo, NY in June 1947; and her thoughts on telling her story.
    Interviewee
    Sara Eisen
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Eisen, Sara, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Sara Eisen with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:08:14
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