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Oral history interview with Claire Zelkowitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.750 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0750

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    Oral history interview with Claire Zelkowitz
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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Zelkowitz's childhood in Czechoslovakia; the changes in her life when Hungary invaded her town in 1939; and the enforcement of anti-Jewish laws. Ms. Zelkowtiz describes being moved to a ghetto in 1944 for three months; being transported to Auschwitz and then to forced labor in a factory. She discusses medical experimentation in the camps and the rape of young girls who worked as maids for SS men. Ms. Zelkowitz describes her liberation by American troops; her debilitated condition; her move to Prague after the war; and her immigration to the United States with her husband.
    Interviewee
    Claire Zelkowitz
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1989 February 20
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Claire Zelkowitz on February 20, 1989. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in July 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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    2022-07-28 20:13:21
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