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Oral history interview with Samuel Oliner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.543 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0543

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    Oral history interview with Samuel Oliner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Samuel Oliner describes his childhood in Gorlitza, Poland, his memories antisemitism after the Nazi invasion of Poland; his family's forcible relocation to a ghetto in Bobowa; conditions in the ghetto; roundups of Jewish citizens in August 1942; his escape from the ghetto; the fate of his family who perished; disguising his identity; living as a Polish Catholic; working in a Nazi labor camp; escaping and returning to the family he had been living with; his liberation by the Soviets; the execution of Nazis; the rape of Polish women he observed; escaping Poland for Czechoslovakia; his time in a displaced persons camp in 1945; his immigration to England; and his immigration to the United States in 1950.
    Interviewee
    Dr. Samuel P. Oliner
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1994 January 14
    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 (Hi8) : sound, color ; 8mm.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Oliner, Samuel P.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Samuel Oliner on January 14, 1994. 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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    2023-11-16 08:45:40
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