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Oral history interview with Henia Fishman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.814 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0814

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    Oral history interview with Henia Fishman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Henia Fishman (née Rubin) discusses her infancy and young childhood in Pustelnik, Poland; being two years old when World War II began in 1939 (her early memories are those told to her by her family members); the family being forced into a ghetto in 1942; her father’s work in a factory until his murder at the hands of the Nazis; being hidden by a young girl in the bushes to evade deportation from the ghetto; witnessing the shooting of her grandmother and cousin by the Gestapo; being taken in November 1942 to a Polish family that hid her until the end of the war; being claimed by a cousin after the war, over the objections of the Polish family who had hidden her; attending school in Warsaw as the only Jewish student in her class; visiting Treblinka, where her parents perished, in 1953; working in Warsaw until 1957 when she immigrated to the United States; attending college; and getting married and having three children.
    Interviewee
    Henia Fishman
    Date
    interview:  1993 October 25
    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..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Fishman, Henia.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Henia Fishman on October 25, 1993. 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:47:00
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