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Oral history interview with Edith Landau

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.726 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0726

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    Oral history interview with Edith Landau

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edith Landau (née Herskovitz), born on January 4, 1927 in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, discusses the increase in antisemitism in 1939; the removal of townspeople in 1942; schools closing in 1943; remaining in Michalovce until 1944, including three to four months in hiding with a Christian family and in the woods; internment in the ghetto (where her father dies) in 1944; deportation to Ravensbrück, then Bergen-Belsen until liberation in 1945; living in a Red Cross facility in Sweden postwar; and immigrating to the United States in May 1946.
    Interviewee
    Edith Landau
    Interviewer
    Anita Halpern
    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

    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.
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    2023-11-16 08:40:21
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