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Oral history interview with Ethel Hochberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.705 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0705

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    Oral history interview with Ethel Hochberg

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    Interview Summary
    Ethel Hochberg (née Lylberberg), born on October 13, 1918 in ?ód?, Poland, discusses her observant but modern Jewish family; living in ?ód? ghetto from 1940 to August 1944; Chaim Rumkowski giving her a job in the ghetto office; ghetto conditions; the train ride to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944; the death of her mother; staying with her sister-in-law; meeting a neighbor who helped them into her labor unit; surviving because she knew how to knit; transferring to Birkenau after four months; knowing the block leader who gave her a job sorting clothes; her brief deportation to Breslau; working in a factory; the death march to Mauthausen concentration camp; going on to Gross-Rosen; traveling by train to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British on April 15, 1945; being very sick at end of war with a hole in her back full of lice; reuniting with one brother and sister-in-law’s husband after the war; and immigrating to the United States on August 23, 1949.
    Interviewee
    Ethel Hochberg
    Interviewer
    Rabbi Gorman
    Date
    interview:  1985 April 22
    Geography
    creation: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (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 08:40:13
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