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Oral history interview with Miriam Fridman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.391.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0839

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    Oral history interview with Miriam Fridman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Miriam Fridman (née Miriam Rachel Dutkiewicz), born on December 5, 1925 in Łódź, Poland, discusses her family; her younger sister, Eva; her father who was in the dairy business with his brothers; participating in a Zionist youth organization; completing seven years of public school; being mistreated by Catholic children; not growing up in a religious family; speaking Yiddish and Polish at home; the beginning of the war; being relocated from their apartment to the ghetto in the dilapidated section of the city; life in the ghetto; her working sewing; her father being sent away to work and never returning; the death of her mother at the age of 38 from starvation; the deportation of her sister who was later killed in the camp; how rationing her bread portion helped her survive; being deported to Auschwitz in 1944; being tattooed at the camp; being liberated by the Russians; taking a train to Italy; immigrating to the United States; getting married in 1949; their son; and speaking at schools about her Holocaust experience.
    Interviewee
    Miriam Fridman
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2015 October 06

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Fridman, Miriam.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Miriam Fridman on October 6, 2015.
    Funding Note
    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 08:05:07
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