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Oral history interview with Anna Post

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.66 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0066

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    Oral history interview with Anna Post

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Anna Dulla Post (alias: Salome Czaplinska), born in 1923 in Bronocice, Poland, discusses growing up in a happy observant Jewish family of three daughters and three sons; her family’s move to Dzialoszyce, where her parents owned a flour mill; the German invasion in 1939; having to live in the ghetto; the anti-Jewish laws; doing forced labor digging ditches; the widespread starvation; the deportation of Jews in 1942; pretending to be non-Jewish and getting caught; being ordered to dig her own grave; being released after the Nazi was bribed; her brother and sister leaving their baby at a church and committing suicide after they were denounced to the Nazis; being in the Warsaw ghetto; seeing corpses in the streets; the music and poetry that helped people to cope; the rumors about concentration camps; being sheltered in a heap of hay with the help of two Polish men; fleeing to Kraków; being arrested and staying in a ghetto prison; being sent by cattle car to Auschwitz; arriving in the camp; standing for hours; being tattooed; the shaving of her head; feeling a sense of sisterhood with the fellow inmates; the change in her sense of identity; the conditions in the camp; doing unnecessary labor carrying stones; suffering from typhoid; doing kitchen labor; stealing food for friends; the selections; the smoke from the crematoria; being forced to watch someone hanged; the arrival of thousands more people; being sent on a death march; everyone repeating, “We will survive”; being taken by cattle car to Ravensbrück; being transferred to an airplane factory; doing forced labor painting planes; living off grass and tree bark; seeing American planes; liberation; going to her hometown; her struggle to find herself; the survival of her youngest brother and his death soon after the war from a heart attack; getting married in 1946 to another survivor named Jakob; and her life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Anna Post
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1991 September 16

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Concentration camp inmates--Selection process. Concentration camp tattoos. Crematoriums. Forced labor. Forced standing. Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim. Holocaust survivors--Interviews. Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust survivors--Psychology. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish families. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Dzialoszyce. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Jews--Poland--Dzialoszyce. Passing (Identity)--Poland. Prisoners--Poland--Kraków. Star of David badges. Starvation. Theft. Typhoid fever. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music. 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 on September 16, 1991 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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