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Oral history interview with Ruth Pilberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.763 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0763

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    Oral history interview with Ruth Pilberg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ruth Pilberg (née Glucksmann), born on June 8, 1917 in Wadowice, Poland, discusses living at home in Wadowice until 1941; working on a Volksdeutsche farm; her deportation to Auschwitz; Neustadt-Glewe; working on a chicken farm; covering for other girls stealing eggs and being sent back to camp; a forced march on January 18, 1945; liberation by the Soviets; living in multiple displaced person camps with her husband, Morris Pilberg, postwar; and arriving in the United States on March 3, 1947.
    Interviewee
    Ruth Pilberg
    Interviewer
    Barbara Spun
    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
    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.
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    2023-11-16 08:40:35
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