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Oral history interview with Simon Stemer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.500 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0500

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    Oral history interview with Simon Stemer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interviews describe Mr. Stemer's childhood in Krasnystaw, Poland; his memories of the outbreak of war in September 1939 and the flight of many Jews to Russia; and his experiences living in Vilna with his sister. Mr. Stemer describes his experiences in the Ludmir ghetto (now Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine), escaping capture through the war years, and hiding in bunkers and sheds in Russia and Poland. Mr. Stemer talks about the fate of his family, who were deported to Sobibor in 1942. He discusses his life after liberation by the Russians, trying to avoid conscription in the Soviet Army and working in the black market, his immigration to the United States in 1947, and his life in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Simon Stemer
    Date
    interview:  1990 December 12
    interview:  1990 December 13
    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
    Stemer, Simon.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Simon Stemer on December 12, 1990 and December 13, 1990. 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 08:45:28
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