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Oral history interview with Judith Zucker

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.61 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0061

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    Oral history interview with Judith Zucker

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    Interview Summary
    Judith Balassa Zucker, born circa 1934 in the small town Krupina, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), describes having a normal childhood with her older sister; her father being one of seven physicians in town and also a dentist; her mother being trained as a pharmacist; her uncle, a physician in another village, being dismissed and coming to live with them in 1940; restrictions placed on Jews, including Jewish physicians; the jurisdiction changes in Czechoslovakia; never seeing German soldiers until near the end of the war but the local population treating them just as bad as the Nazis; men, including her uncle, being taken to the labor camp Nowaki (Novaky) in 1941; people trying to flee to Hungary; her uncle being taken to Birkenau and shot; the fates of her grandparents and another uncle; being kicked out of her school and attending a small Jewish school; being beaten up by a boy when she was six years old; belongings of value being confiscated in 1940; the development of an underground resistance movement, which was helped by four parachutists who were sent by the British from Palestine and had originally come from the area; the parachutists being caught and executed; the resistance being helped by some Russian parachutists; hiding with a small group that went into the Low Tatra mountains with her father as the leader; life in the mountains during the winter and struggling to find food; crossing the Russian front in 1945; returning home; going to Israel in 1949; and why she told her story to her boys.
    Interviewee
    Judith Zucker
    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
    Zucker, Judith, 1934-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Judith Zucker 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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