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Oral history interview with Jennie Essig

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.664 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0664

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    Oral history interview with Jennie Essig

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    Interview Summary
    Jennie Essig (née Goldsmit), born on March 2, 1920 in Obcza, Poland, discusses her family going into hiding in 1939; receiving aid from non-Jews; a Jewish Soviet Army captain advising them to flee; living in Lwów from 1939 to 1940; going to Kherson (USSR) in 1941; studying nursing; helping with the Red Cross; her family staying in Kherson because it was too hard to travel; traveling further east to Foydashof [PH]; antisemitism; scarcity of food; living in Stalingrad and Foydashof from 1942 to 1943; searching for her parents in Kherson; going to Nikolayev; returning to Poland (possibly Reichenbach); helping to open a kibbutz in Waldenburg; living in Leipheim displaced persons camp in January 1946; going to Bari displaced persons camp in Italy in October 1946; wanting to immigrate to Palestine but needing medical help for her son’s polio; and immigrating to the United States in March 1951.
    Interviewee
    Jennie Essig
    Interviewer
    Rebecca Siegel
    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
    1 sound cassette (60 min.).

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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 08:39:58
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