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Oral history interview with Chana Goldstein

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.27 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0027

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    Oral history interview with Chana Goldstein

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Chana Goldstein, born in 1920 in Łódź, Poland, describes her happy childhood; her four brothers and two sisters; her father’s jewelry store and his death when she was seven; her mother moving to Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), where she had a grocery store and a catering business; getting married at 18 years old; moving to the ghetto when her daughter was an infant; her husband fleeing to Warsaw, Poland for a week; her work sewing shoes by hand for the German army; the Germans taking old people and the children, including her two-year-old baby and her mother, to be killed in 1942; working in a laundry; being moved in 1944 to another part of the ghetto to concentrate the Jews; the daily selections and her husband hiding because he was in poor health; being taken to Auschwitz by train in cattle cars; arriving and having her hair cut; the lack of food but never getting sick; her husband committing suicide; being transported after nine days to work in Bremen, Germany, where she had to clean up streets after air raids; having to walk to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945; being severely hurt by the rifle butt of an SS man; liberation and having difficulty eating; being the only survivor of her 100 relatives; marrying a survivor from the camp in 1946; her husband being a butcher and staying in Germany until 1949; going to Israel; her son being born in 1952 and contracting polio; immigrating to the United States in 1958 with her son and daughter who then were nine and five years old; and still getting very emotional when she talks about her experience but is thankful to be alive and to have her family.
    Interviewee
    Chana Goldstein
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Concentration camp inmates--Selection process. Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior. Death march survivors. Death marches. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Infanticide--Lithuania. Jewish children--Crimes against--Lithuania. Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish refugees--Germany. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Mass murder--Lithuania--Vilnius. Massacres--Lithuania--Vilnius. Pogroms--Lithuania--Vilnius. Prisoners--Abuse of. Shooting (Execution) Suicide victims--Poland. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania. Women--Personal narratives.
    Personal Name
    Goldstein, Chana, 1920-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Chana Goldstein 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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