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Oral history interview with Mimi Weingarten

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.177.20 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0020

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    Oral history interview with Mimi Weingarten

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mimi Weingarten, born on February 14, 1929 in Sighet, Romania, discusses her four siblings and parents (only two family members survived); growing up in pre-war Sighet; attending public and Jewish schooling); experiencing antisemitism; the forced closure of her family’s cheese shop; the invasion of their home; Jewish schools being forced to close; the arrest of her father and later her sister; a few Gentile friends sneaking food to her family; hearing rumors about labor camps; the Sighet ghetto; being deported with her family to Auschwitz on the last transport in 1944; the three-day journey in a cattle car to the camp; arriving in Auschwitz; being lined up for selection along with her sisters; being placed in Block 13; being moved to another block and her sister sneaking her into the children’s block; being in Barracks 34; being placed in the so-called "Gypsy" camp in Auschwitz (Zigeunerlager); her heartbreak at seeing her little sister taken away; enduring whipping after getting caught retrieving ditch water; being sent to Birkenau and doing forced labor; an SS officer showing her a moment of kindness; spending four months working on airplanes; going on a two-day march from a factory to northeast Germany; being liberated by Russian soldiers; sleeping in a forest; receiving warnings from American soldiers about the Russian soldiers; returning to Sighet to find her father (she never found him); a Jewish family that had moved into their home and would not take them in; her sister’s marriage; being homeless; immigrating to the United States; her thoughts on Holocaust denial; and her pride at the accomplishments of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Mimi Weingarten
    Interviewer
    Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
    Date
    interview:  2015 May 10
    Credit Line
    This testimony was recorded through a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Amud Aish Memorial Museum Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Antisemitism. Concentration camp guards. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Death march survivors. Death marches. Forced labor. Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim. Holocaust denial. Holocaust survivors--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish children--Crimes against. Jewish families--Romania--Sighetu Marmatiei. Jewish ghettos--Romania--Sighetu Marmatiei. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Romania. Jews--Persecutions--Romania. Jews--Romania--Sighetu Marmatiei. Lice. Orthodox Judaism. Sisters. Soldiers--Soviet Union. Soldiers--United States. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania. Women--Personal narratives.
    Personal Name
    Weingarten, Mimi.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Amud Aish Memorial Museum's Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, produced the interview with Mimi Weingarten on May 10, 2015.
    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 09:26:18
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