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Oral history interview with Rachelle Perahia Margosh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.303 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0486

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    Oral history interview with Rachelle Perahia Margosh

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rachelle Perahia Margosh, born in 1924 in Drama, Greece, discusses her childhood; her father's Zionist beliefs and investments in Palestine; her time in a Swiss boarding school; relationships with non-Jews in Greece; her family's decision to move to Athens, Greece after the Italian occupation; hiding with several Gentile families during World War II; being denounced to the Germans by a family friend and getting arrested; her imprisonment in Haidari and deportation to Auschwitz; the deaths of her parents and older brother in Auschwitz; her experiences in Auschwitz and then Bergen-Belsen; her treatment in hospitals after liberation and moving to the American zone of Germany to be an interpreter for the American Army; going back to Greece and living with an aunt; meeting and marrying her husband; and immigrating to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Rachelle P. Margosh
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2004 June 24
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Rachelle Margosh (b. Perahia) on June 24, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in June 2004.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:09
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