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Oral history interview with Lucyna Berkowicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.637 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0637

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    Oral history interview with Lucyna Berkowicz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lucyna Berkowicz (née Wiesman), born on March 12, 1914 in Lwów, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (present day L’viv, Ukraine) discusses her Zionist family; prewar antimsemitism; the politics of the Soviet and German occupations; selections; brutality on the streets; the creation of Lwów ghetto; escaping to Lublin with her future husband in January 1942; Wolanow ghetto; Boronov; witnessing atrocities; deportation to Starachowice in 1943; forced labor in an ammunition factory; escaping; securing papers from the underground; fleeing to Germany; hiding as Aryan; working in Flato by Schneidemühl; working in Polish government; seeing evidence of Poles harming Jewish partisans during the war; fleeing to Austria with her husband Daniel Berkowicz’s family; reuniting with her husband; returning to Germany; Bergen-Belsen and Stuttgart displaced persons camps; and immigrating to the United States on April 1, 1947.
    Interviewee
    Lucyna Berkowicz
    Interviewer
    Eileen Steinberg
    Date
    interview:  1985 April 21
    Geography
    creation: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    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.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    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, the interview is not to be used for political purposes.

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. The interview was recorded for the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in 1985.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:39:48
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