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Oral history interview with Desi Rina Evan

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.810 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0810

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    Oral history interview with Desi Rina Evan

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Desi Evan descibes her childhood in Sofia, Bulgaria; her memories of the Nazi occupation; the prejudice she encountered; moving to the ghetto; life during the war years; the abortion her mother had after the Nazis invaded Bulgaria; her uncle's forced labor; her father's refusal to convert to Christianity; his suicide after the Nazi occupation; her liberation by the Soviet Army; her family's return to Sofia; the injustice and corruption her family faced under communist rule; her family's move to Israel; and her fami'ys immigration to the United States in the 1960s.
    Interviewee
    Desi R. Evan
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Peter Ryan
    Elizabeth Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1996 May 28
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Desi Rina Evan on May 28, 1996. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 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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    2023-11-16 08:46:59
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