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Oral history interview with Miriam Samuel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.491 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0491

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    Oral history interview with Miriam Samuel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Miriam Samuel (née Farach), born on July 24, 1924, discusses her childhood in a small town in Czechoslovakia; growing up in a large family; her early experiences of antisemitism; the fears engendered by the rise of Hitler to power in Germany; the occupation of their family home by Hungarian troops in 1939; the loss of the family business; the family's arrest; a three-week journey, where she endured brutal ill treatment by Ukrainian police; witnessing sexual assaults, murders of the elderly and children, the shooting of men, and beatings; life in a ghetto where starvation and illness were rampant, and where her brother died of malnourishment; evading a round up of Jews for execution, and hiding in the countryside with her mother; being caught and escaping again to Hungary where they lived and worked in relative safety until 1944 when she was deported to Auschwitz; her experiences in Auschwitz, working for an SS officer, and the death march she endured; being moved to a military camp, where they were abandoned and then liberated by American soldiers in May 1945; her return to Czechoslovakia; her marriage to a fellow survivor; living with her husband in displaced persons camps in Romania and Germany and the conditions there; and her immigration to the United States in February 1948.
    Interviewee
    Miriam Samuel
    Interviewer
    Barbara Barer
    Date
    interview:  1991 December 10
    interview:  1991 December 18
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Samuel, Miriam.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Miriam Samuel on December 10, 1991 and December 18, 1991. 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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    2023-11-16 08:45:26
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