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Oral history interview with Marianne Windholm

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.521 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0503

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    Oral history interview with Marianne Windholm

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marianne Windholm, born in 1910 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her childhood; her father's death and her family's difficult financial situation after his death; the Anschluss, Kristallnacht, and the restrictions that were imposed on Jews after the German occupation; her brother's immigration to Venezuela; her sister's arrest, release from prison, and exile to Yugoslavia; her mother's deportation to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia; her knowledge of what was happening in the concentration camps; her and her husband's decision to go into hiding in 1941 after receiving a deportation notice; being blackmailed by her rescuer's boyfriend and eventually being denounced by him and going to prison; her and her husband's deportation to Auschwitz; her separation from her husband at the selection and his death; her time in Auschwitz and her liberation in January 1945 by the Soviet Army; her fear of being sent to the Soviet Union; her escape from the camp with a few other women; her return to Austria; her reunion with her sister; her time in Italy working for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; and immigrating to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Marianne Windholm
    Interviewer
    Amy Rubin
    Date
    interview:  2005 November 18
    interview:  2005 December 03
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch coordinated the interview with Marianne Windholm (née Feuerstein) in New York, NY on November 18, 2005 and December 3, 2005. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January2006.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Carole and Maurice Berk.
    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 08:03:15
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