Overview
- Interview Summary
- Leizor Kalowski (born on June 15, 1916 in Lodz, Poland) and Sonia Kalowski (born on July 22, 1919 [possibly 1916] in Lodz, Poland), discuss their marriage in 1939 after the Germans invaded Poland; surviving the Lodz ghetto; having a child; leaving Poland in the fall of 1945; journeying through Czechoslovakia and Austria into West Germany where the US Army placed them in the Bensheim displaced persons camp; immigrating to the United States in 1951 with the support of HIAS; settling in Providence, RI; their work supporting the family; having another son in 1955; retiring in 1981; and their children and grandchildren.
- Interviewee
- Leizor Kalowski
Sonia Kalowski - Interviewer
- Nathan Kalowski
- Date
-
interview:
2005
- Geography
-
creation:
Brookline (Mass.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nathan Kalowski
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
-
4 digital files : wmv.
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- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish families. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Lódz. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Jews--Poland--Lódz. Men--Personal narratives. Refugee camps--Germany. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Geographic Name
- Bensheim (Germany) Bremerhaven (Germany) Lódz (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Providence (R.I.) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Kalowski, Leizor. Kalowski, Sonia.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Nathan Kalowski donated his interview with his parents Leizor and Sonia Kalowski to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2020.
- Special Collection
-
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:05:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn715908
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