Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

Hannah Stein, born in Albigowa, Poland on August 18, 1917, discusses her childhood on a farm with three brothers and two sisters; separating from her family after the mayor said that Nazis were coming; hiding in the attic of a Polish family; eating very little because the Polish family was poor; conditions in the attic in which she could not stand nor sit up because of the low ceiling; missing her family while in hiding; staying in hiding for two and a half years during the war; being liberated by Soviet forces; her cousin, Leon Lowenbrown, who came with a Russian soldier to find her after the war; how most of her family members, except for two brothers, perished during the war; meeting her husband, Henry Stein, in 1945; moving to Munich, Germany and raising a family; immigrating to the United States in 1961; and helping her husband open a fish market in Brooklyn, NY.