Overview
- Interview Summary
- Josette J. Laznowski, born in 1940 in Paris, France, discusses her family; her sister who was born in 1937; her father, who was sent to Morocco when the war started; her speculation that her father was detained when he returned to France; her mother leaving her and her sister in a house in Dreux, near Chartres, with a woman who was an alcoholic; living on the second floor of a building with other children, and the first floor of the building, which had a place to castrate pigs; going to an orphanage with her sister until the end of the war; her parents surviving Auschwitz; her father joining them before her mother, who was taken to Sweden to recover; the birth of her brother in 1948; her father’s death in 1951; her mother’s sister in Argentina; immigrating with her mother and sister to Argentina; and getting married and having two children.
- Interviewee
- Josette J. Laznowski
- Interviewer
- André Poser
- Date
-
interview:
2018 December 06
- Geography
-
creation:
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of André Poser/Blue Lights Heaven Production
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Extent
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1 digital file : MOV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Hidden children (Holocaust) Holocaust survivors--Argentina. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust--France. Jews--France--Paris. Orphanages--France. Sisters. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Children--France. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France.
- Geographic Name
- Argentina--Emigration and immigration. Dreux (France) France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Paris (France)
- Personal Name
- Laznowski, Josette J., 1940-
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- André Poser/Blue Lights Heaven Production donated the oral history interviews of The Last Witnesses of Time collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2020.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:07:40
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