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Oral history interview with Joseph Gurwin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.219 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0508

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    Oral history interview with Joseph Gurwin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Joseph Gurwin, born in 1920 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, describes his childhood in Panevėžys, Lithuania; learning several languages in Hebrew school and playing on a soccer team after school; receiving one of seventeen visas to immigrate to the United States and live with his uncle in 1936; learning English in an American high school; entering into a government manufacturing business with his uncle; being drafted into the US Army in 1944; finding out about his parents’ deaths and his brother’s survival; his brother’s life behind the Iron Curtain in Lithuania until his 1989 immigration to Israel; participating in several community organizations after the war; and raising a family.
    Interviewee
    Joseph Gurwin
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2006 August 01

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gurwin, Joseph, 1920-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Joseph Gurwin (né Joselis Gurvieius) on August 1, 2006. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in August 2006.
    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 08:03:16
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