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Oral history interview with Helen Stern

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.834 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0834

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    Oral history interview with Helen Stern

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Helen Stern (née Mata), born on September 1, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses being smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto; passing as a non-Jew in Warsaw; a failed attempt to rescue her mother and sisters from a concentration camp; hiding up to ten Jews in her parents' apartment after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; deportation to a German labor camp as a Pole after the Warsaw Polish Uprising; fleeing the Soviets; searching for family in Warsaw; living in Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Berlin postwar; and immigrating to the United States on April 22, 1947.
    Interviewee
    Helen Stern
    Interviewer
    Carole Bailis
    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.
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    2023-11-16 08:41:01
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