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Oral history interview with Ruth Joseph

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.842 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0842

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    Oral history interview with Ruth Joseph

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ruth Joseph, born in 1939, discusses her childhood in Kielce, Poland; her family's move to the ghetto in Kielce; the mass deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Treblinka; her family's escape from the ghetto; her father obtaining false papers; the period when the family hid, passing as a Catholic family, in a town near Warsaw; the family's flight toward the front line in the direction of the Soviet Union; their return to Kielce; their decision to emigrate after the Kielce pogrom in 1946; their arrival in the United States; the family's difficulties in adjusting to life in the United States; moving to Venezuela; returning to the United States; her marriage and family life. [Note that most of the information in the interview is based on the memories of Ruth's parents.]
    Interviewee
    Ruth Joseph
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1996 January 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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Joseph, Ruth, 1939-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Joseph on January 25, 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 08:47:09
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