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Oral history interview with Sara Shapiro

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.238 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0518

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    Oral history interview with Sara Shapiro

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sara Shapiro (née Goralnik) discusses her childhood in Korets before the war; being expelled from school because she was Jewish; witnessing a progrom in 1942 when she was still a child and then moving to her town’s small ghetto; running away from the ghetto and finding a house in which to work as a maid; returning to Korets after the war to discover that most of her family had died but then meeting her husband; going to a displaced persons camp in Germany; and eventually immigrating to Detroit, Michigan in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Sara Shapiro
    Interviewer
    Sidney M. Bolkosky
    Date
    interview:  2007 July 06
    Credit Line
    Interview funded by a grant from Katharine M. and Leo S. Ullman.

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shapiro, Sara.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Sara Shapiro on July 6, 2007. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2007.
    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 08:03:20
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