Overview
- Interview Summary
- Emil Zisow, born in Miskolc, Hungary, describes his experiences during the Holocaust.
Anna Zisow, born in Miskolc, Hungary, describe being sent to live in a ghetto for two days; being deported by cattle car to Auschwitz concentration camp; the selections upon arriving at the camp; being 19 years old when she arrived in the camp; never seeing her father again; the death of her mother and two-year-old niece; showering at the camp; having all her hair cut; the barracks; interacting with the other women inmates and helping one another cover their heads; the death of one of her sisters; the Czechoslovakian inmates; illnesses in the camp; and feeling responsible for the survival of her two sisters. [Note that the recording stops prematurely.] - Interviewee
- Emil Zisow
Anna Zisow - Interviewer
- Dr. David L. Zisow
Brad Zisow - Date
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interview:
1988 July
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David L. Zisow
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : WAV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process. Dysentery. Forced labor. Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives. Jewish families--Hungary. Jewish ghettos--Hungary. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Hungary--Miskolc. Jews--Persecutions--Hungary. Scarlatina. Sisters. Women concentration camp inmates. Women Kapos. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary. Men--Personal narratives. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Hungary--History--1918-1945. Hungary. Miskolc (Hungary) Oświęcim (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Zisow, Anna. Zisow, Emil.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- David Zisow donated the oral history interviews with Anna and Emil Zisow to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on September 5, 2015. The interview was conducted in July 1988 by Brad and David Zisow.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:35:00
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