Overview
- Interview Summary
- Pnina Kaminsky (née Sheinfeld), born in 1927 in Falticeni, Romania, discusses her father Marco (Mordechai) Sheinfeld, her mother Chana Sapochnik, and her brother Benny Sheinfeld (four years older than her); living near the border of Romania and Russia in 1942; their capture by the Germans as part of Operation Barbarossa; the murder of her father and brother by the Germans in front of her; living in hiding at age 15 for about a month with her mother and a group of women until they were captured by the Germans and taken to a labor camp in Russia; being separated from mother at the camp upon arrival; not knowing her mother’s fate until she reunited with her in Israel years later; working in a laundry factory after the war; meeting Yakov Kaminsky, whom she married in 1946; the birth of her daughters in Israel; and how she sees her large family (including grandchildren and great-grandchildren) as a victory over the Nazis.
- Interviewee
- Pnina Kaminsky
- Interviewer
- Shoval Tshuva
- Date
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interview:
2016
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Chen Serok
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 digital file : MOV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Forced labor. Hiding places. Holocaust survivors--Israel. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Romania--Falticeni. Mothers and daughters. Textile workers. Women concentration camp inmates. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- Geographic Name
- Falticeni (Romania) Israel--Emigration and immigration. Romania--History--1914-1944.
- Personal Name
- Kaminsky, Pnina, 1927-2017.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Chen Serok donated the interview with her grandmother Pnina Kaminsky to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2021.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:09:19
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