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Oral history interview with David Dattner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.63 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0063

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    Oral history interview with David Dattner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    David Dattner, born November 1908 in Zywiec, Poland, discusses growing up in a family of eight children; his father’s death during WWI; his earliest memories of antisemitism; attending public school; his employment as an engineer, then as a photographer; becoming an entrepreneur in ski and skate shoes; getting married to Ella Rubenfeld in 1936; the German invasion; fleeing to Kraków, Poland; fleeing with his family on boxcar trains (standing room only) from Krakow to Jarosław; returning to Kraków and passing as a non-Jew; fleeing east again with his brother while his wife went to Zywiec; being interrogated by a Russian soldier for two hours; escaping the Katyn massacre of Polish soldiers; moving back and forth between Soviet Poland and German Poland; being denied shelter by a Jewish family that knew David was Jewish; going back to Kraków and being there in 1942; having to wear armbands; his family going into hiding in the rural area outside Zywiec; the deportation and deaths of his mother and sister, Hilde; the end of the war; going to Cuba, then New York, NY and Buffalo, NY; the survival of all of his siblings except Hilde; doing hard manual labor at a Plymouth car factory while studying English; opening a wholesale jewelry business in March 1949; returning to Zywiec after the war; and his appreciation for living in the US.
    Interviewee
    David Dattner
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 15

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dattner, David.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with David Dattner on November 15, 1990 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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