Overview
- Interview Summary
- Natan Levine, born in Warsaw, Poland, discusses moving to Łódź, Poland; his siblings; his parents’ family and their jobs and fates; his uncle’s family; getting married and having two children; the German invasion; forced labor; running away with his family to Bialystok, Poland; working for a year in Siberia in a factory and not being able to bring his family with him; the conditions for the community and the lack of food; escaping from the work camp in 1940 to go home to Warsaw; the poor conditions in Warsaw; the difficulties of returning home; being detained in Moscow, Russia by police and having money taken; seeing his family in Bialystok and running together into the forest; the German police beating them; and forced labor by the German police.
- Interviewee
- Hela K. Levine
Natan Levine - Interviewer
- Joseph Lewin
- Date
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interview:
1982
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tammy Lewin
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Extent
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1 digital file : MPEG-2.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Forced labor--Soviet Union. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Men--Personal narratives. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Bialystok (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Moscow (Russia) Poland--Emigration and immigration. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration. Warsaw (Poland) World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Personal Name
- Levine, Natan. Levine, Hela Kalinsky.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Tammy Lewin donated a copy of the oral history interview with Natan Levine and Hela Kalinsky Levine to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 20, 2012. The interview was originally conducted by Joseph Lewin in 1982.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:29:51
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