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Oral history interview with Anna Post

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.49 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0049

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    Oral history interview with Anna Post

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Anna Post, born in Poland, describes the war starting when she was 16 years old; not believing what would happen and thinking that Poland merely would be occupied; her happy childhood as the youngest of three sisters and three brothers; living ten people to a room after 1940; the scarcity of food and having to wear a star; people being deported to unknown destinations; reporting for forced labor one day and the city being empty when she returned; never seeing her parents again; being hid by two Polish men then moving to Krakow, Poland, where she obtained forged papers; being arrested by the Gestapo, beaten, and then taken to Auschwitz (she shows photographs with inmates); daily life in the camp; the roll calls; sleeping conditions; getting sick for a few weeks; witnessing the hanging of a friend who attempted escape; the electric electrified barbed wire and keeping each other from touching it; dreaming about meals and singing to keep themselves going; hearing about the Warsaw ghetto uprising; an uprising of the people who worked at the crematoria in Birkenau; being evacuated and marched out of the camp in January 1945; being sent to Ravensbrück; being assigned to work in a munitions factory and saved by a friend from the kitchen; being liberated and the feeling of freedom; returning to Poland by horse and buggy; going to her home town then Krakow and not finding any relatives; having nightmares; attending a university; getting married and having a son and a daughter; trying to leave but not getting a passport until after Stalin died; and the comparison of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
    Interviewee
    Anna Post
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Crematoriums. Death march survivors. Death marches. Forced labor. Hanging--Poland. Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim. Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust survivors--Psychology. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Dzialoszyce. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Jews--Poland--Dzialoszyce. Jews--Poland. Nightmares. Passing (Identity)--Poland. Prisoners--Poland--Kraków. Roll calls. Star of David badges. Typhoid fever. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Oswiecim. Women--Personal narratives.
    Personal Name
    Post, Anna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Anna Post 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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