Overview
- Interview Summary
- Helen Shabas née Bronstein discusses her prewar life Poland, her experiences in hiding under Nazi occupation, her involvement with a Jewish partisan group from 1942-1945, her romance with the leader Harry Shabas whom she married in 1945, her liberation by the Red Army, her postwar travels throughout Europe, and eventual immigration to the United States.
- Interviewee
- Helen Shabas
- Interviewer
- Mr. Harrison Heller
- Date
-
interview:
2021 January-2023 January
- Geography
-
creation:
New York (N.Y.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Helen and Harry Shabas
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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5 digital files : WAV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939 – 1945)--Personal narratives. Women--Personal narratives. Jewish resistance.
- Geographic Name
- Poland (Territory under German occupation, 1939-1945)
- Personal Name
- Shabas, Helen
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Harrison Heller donated his interview with his grandmother Helen Shabas to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2023
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-18 09:07:10
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Also in Helen and Harry Shabas family collection
Photographs of Helen and Harry Shabas and family members from the prewar, wartime, and postwar periods, and an oral history interview with Helen Shabas.
"We Are Here"
Document
Consists of one DVD, entitled "We Are Here", written and produced by Harrison Heller. The documentary tells the story of Helen Bronstein and Harry Shabas, who participated in a Jewish partisan group from 1942-1945 and later married. Helen Bronstein, who is interviewed on the documentary along with her sister, Dorothy, was originally from Drohiczyn, Poland, and survived in various hiding places until joining the partisan group. Also interviewed is Boris Kotler, who, like Harry, was originally from Siemiatycze, Poland, and who recounts the story of the formation of the partisan group. Harry and Helen married in Italy in September 1945 and immigrated to the United States in 1949.
