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Oral history interview with Irene Opdyke

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.864 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0864

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    Oral history interview with Irene Opdyke

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    Interview Summary
    Irene Opdyke discusses her childhood in Kozienice, Poland; her service as a nurse in the Polish Army; her experiences in a forced labor camp near Radom, Poland; her work as a housekeeper for a German Army Major in Radom and Tarnopol; the mass killings she witnessed there; her experiences hiding Jewish people in the Major’s house; the raids by the Gestapo; the Major’s discovery of the people in hiding; the experience of being a woman during wartime; joining the partisans near Radom in 1944; her arrest by and escape from the Soviets in 1945; her experiences in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany between 1946 and 1949; immigration to the United States in 1949; her life after the war; her family; her experiences speaking to the public about her wartime activities.
    Interviewee
    Irene G. Opdyke
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1993 May 05
    interview:  1994 March 18
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irene Opdyke on May 5, 1993 and March 18, 1994. 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 08:47:16
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