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Oral history interview with Ute (Sora) Seiler Vigorito

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.812 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0812

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    Oral history interview with Ute (Sora) Seiler Vigorito

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    Interview Summary
    Ute (Sora) Seiler Vigorito, born in October 1941 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her limited early memories of living in hiding in 1943; her mother and older sister being taken; hiding with her grandmother and twin sister; being found in 1944; being interned in the Children's Block with her twin in Auschwitz; experimentation under Josef Mengele; being injected with an unknown substance in her spine; suffering convulsions until 1983; the deaths of her twin sister, mother, and older sister; her grandmother sending her to her father who survived Dachau; and the trauma of the separation from her grandmother.
    Interviewee
    Sora Seiler Vigorito
    Interviewer
    Murray Cohen
    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 08:40:53
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