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Oral history interview with Perla Ruzansky Jinich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2017.284.1 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0001

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    Oral history interview with Perla Ruzansky Jinich

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    Interview Summary
    Perla (Pola in Polish) Ruzansky Jinich, born October 13, 1923 in Bialystok, Poland, discusses immigrating to Mexico with her family in 1928; her father and oldest sister arriving in Mexico one year earlier with the idea of soon moving to the United States; how at the time it was very risky for Jewish women to travel alone; not having memories of Bialystok; the social antisemitism present in Mexico in the 1930s; life in Mexico for new immigrants, including their occupations, housing, cultural activities, synagogue attendance, and social relations with other Jews and non-Jews; the gradual social mobility of Jews in Mexico and the possibilities for integration; her volunteer work in the Jewish organization Naamat; her husband, who lost most of his family in the Holocaust; the arrival of news about events in Europe through the American and Yiddish press; the limited possibilities for migration to Mexico for Jewish refugees escaping Nazism; and how difficult it was for Jewish survivors who did not want to speak, or were not believed by veteran local Jews when they tried to tell their Holocaust experiences.
    Interviewee
    Perla Jinich
    Interviewer
    Dr. Yael Siman
    Date
    interview:  2017 April 03
    Geography
    creation: Mexico City (Mexico)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yael Siman on behalf of Nenemi Paxia - Sinergias Educativas A.C.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Spanish
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Dr. Yael Siman donated the oral history interviews of the Voces del Holocausto en México collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum beginning in July 2017. Dr. Siman produced the interviews for an educational resource at her civic association in México, Nenemi Paxia - Sinergias Educativas A.C.
    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 09:41:14
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