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Oral history interview with Shulim Jonas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.79.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0696

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    Oral history interview with Shulim Jonas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Shulim Jonas, born June 22, 1917 in Sanok, Poland, discusses being one of seven siblings; his father’s bank; graduating from gymnasium and wanting to be a doctor; the beginning of the war; hiding in the hills with his family when the Germans arrived; seeing people being shot; the Russian occupation; being sent with his family to Siberia; the 22 days it took to get to Siberia; doing hard work and receiving little food; being freed by the Russians; going to Kamen'-na-Obi on the Ob River; working as a bookkeeper on a farm; his family’s return to Poland; the antisemitism in Poland after the war; being smuggled out of the country with his family to Czechoslovakia and then Graz, Austria; attending Graz University in Austria for two years; immigrating with his family to the United States; working in the garment industry; and his belief in God.
    Interviewee
    Shulim Jonas
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2013 May 05

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Jonas, Shulim.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Shulim Jonas in Brooklyn, NY on May 5, 2013.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:21
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