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Oral history interview with Miriam Biegun

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0007

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    Oral history interview with Miriam Biegun

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Miriam Biegun (née Rozwaski), born circa 1937 in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus), describes her family’s background; growing up Orthodox; the Russian occupation; the German occupation beginning in 1941; the massacre of 120 well-educated people, including her father and uncle; the burial of the victims in two large graves; the establishment of a ghetto and the conditions there; fleeing with her family from the ghetto and going to the Lipiczanska forest; joining the Lipiczanska Puszcza resistance when she was a young child; living in the forest for three years; returning with her siblings to Zhetl (the Yiddish name for Dziatlava) in 1944 and finding it in ruins; moving after a few months to Łódź, Poland, where her siblings went to a kibbutz; going to Berlin, Germany in 1947; staying with her aunts and uncles in Ziegenhain and Jäger-Kaserne before ultimately travelling to Israel with an aunt, uncle, and cousin; meeting her future husband on the ship; getting married in Israel; living in Kfar Saba; going to Canada and living in Winnipeg and Windsor; and settling down in Oak Park, MI around 1970.
    Interviewee
    Miriam Biegun
    Date
    interview:  1983 August 10

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette : analog.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Biegun, Miriam.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Miriam Biegun. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Archives Branch received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:22:50
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