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Oral history interview with Erna Blitzer Gorman

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0034

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    Oral history interview with Erna Blitzer Gorman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Erna Blitzer Gorman, born in 1935 in Metz, France, discusses the war breaking out in 1939 while her family was attending a wedding in Wisznice, Poland; being unable to return to France because her father was a Polish citizen; going with her family (mother, father, and sister) to her maternal grandparents' home in Monastyriska, Ukraine; the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941; being moved with her family to a ghetto; escaping to a nearby farm; hiding for two years in a Ukrainian farmer's barn and being aided by the farmer; surviving in hiding until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944; her mother being wounded during an air raid and dying soon after; living in several displaced persons camps with her sister and father; and immigrating to the United States in 1953.
    Interviewee
    Erna B. Gorman
    Date
    interview:  1984

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette : analog.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gorman, Erna.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Erna Gorman. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:22:59
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