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Oral history interview with Rachel Zolowicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.537 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0537

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    Oral history interview with Rachel Zolowicz
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    Interview Summary
    Rachel Zolowicz, born July 15, 1926 in Ozorków, Poland, discusses her childhood in Ozorków; her memories of the German invasion; her family's deportation to the ghetto in Ozorków; the work she performed and her separation from her parents; her transfer to the Lódz ghetto with her two sisters in 1941; their deportation to Auschwitz; the work she performed in an unnamed subcamp; her subsequent transfers with her sisters to Allendorf, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, and an unnamed camp where she was liberated in March 1945; her experiences in displaced persons (DP) camps; the conditions in the DP camp; her marriage in 1946; and immigrating to the United States in 1951.
    Interviewee
    Rachel Zolowicz
    Date
    interview:  1991 July 10
    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..

    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
    Zolowicz, Rachel.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Rachel Zolowicz on July 10, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
    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 20:13:17
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