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Oral history interview with Ella Jacobs

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.466 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0466

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    Oral history interview with Ella Jacobs
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    Interview Summary
    Ella Jacobs describes her childhood in Kopashnovo (then Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine), the invasion of Hungarian and then German Nazis, the escape of her brother to Russia, her father being sent to forced labor, and the deportation of all town members other than wives and mothers. Ms. Jacobs describes encounters with partisans, the deportation of her mother to Auschwitz, hiding in the woods for nine months with nine other children, and their struggles and difficulties with hunger and survival. Ms. Jacobs describes liberation by the Russian's troops, returning to their home town to find nothing and no-one remaining, escaping to the Ukraine and then to Prague, where Ms. Jacobs was reunited with her brother, and later her sister who has survived Auschwitz. Ms. Jacobs discusses her marriage in 1946, she and her husband's immigration to the United States in 1949, their three children, and her emotional struggles regarding her experiences during the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Ella Jacobs
    Interviewer
    Barbara Barer
    Date
    interview:  1989 April 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Jacobs, Ella.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ella Jacobs on April 2, 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2002.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2022-07-28 20:13:16
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