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Oral history interview with Dora Cohn

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.550 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0550

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    Oral history interview with Dora Cohn

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dora Cohn describes her early life in Krakow and Krosno, Poland; her memories of the Nazi invasion in 1939; how her family tried to protect themselves; her family's forced relocation to the Rymanow ghetto; their flight when the Germans arrived; daily life hiding in the forest; her family's decision to return to the ghetto; how her mother was sheltered by a non-Jewish woman; how she was hiding by non-Jewish Poles throughout the war; her family's immigration to Venezuela after the war; and their final settlement in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Dora Fischbein Cohn
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1996 August 07
    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
    Cohn, Dora.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Dora Cohn on August 7, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 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 08:45:43
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