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Oral history interview with Olga Adler

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0002

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    Oral history interview with Olga Adler

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Olga Adler, born in Beregszász, Czechoslovakia (now Berehove, Ukraine), describes her family; her education; growing up assimilated and identifying more as Hungarian than Jewish; the Hungarian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938; the restrictions placed on Jews; her brother and future husband being sent to do forced labor; going to Budapest, Hungary and working as a clothing model; the German occupation and the deportations from Budapest; the mass murder of Jews at the Danube River; the bombings in Budapest; being sent to a camp; almost being shot; life in the camps; being sent back to the Budapest ghetto as a nurse; life in the ghetto; her father, mother, brother, and sister perishing in camps; liberation and her return to her hometown; getting married; and going to the United States when the Russians took over their town.
    Interviewee
    Olga Adler
    Interviewer
    Jonathon Fishbane
    Date
    interview:  1982 July 26

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes : analog.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Adler, Olga.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Olga Adler on June 2, 1982. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:22:49
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