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Oral history interview with Regina Penner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.451 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0451

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    Oral history interview with Regina Penner

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    Interview Summary
    Regina Penner (née Orbach), born on August 13, 1918 in Czestochowa, Poland, discusses pre-war antisemitism; a pogrom in 1921; the German occupation of Poland; the taking of Jewish men for forced labor; German brutality; working with Kennkarte (identity document); living in the two ghettos in Czestochowa for about one year each from 1941 to 1943; the liquidation of the small ghetto; receiving assistance from a Jewish friend to avoid deportation; partisan activity; working in an ammunition factory for five months in 1944; being deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; harsh conditions; brutality of Jewish kapos; Kaufering concentration camp; death march to Tureau(?); liberation by the Americans at Allach concentration camp on May 1,1945; meeting her husband in Feldafing displaced persons camp and marrying; learning her brother survived; and her husband Peter's involvement with Josef Mengele and saving twins from experimentation.
    Interviewee
    Regina O. Penner
    Interviewer
    Helen Grossman
    Date
    interview:  1984 November 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Per the request of the interviewee, any profits from the publication of this interview must be put in scholarship funds for Holocaust studies.

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:38:40
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