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Oral history interview with Gita Frankel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.37.4 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0004

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    Oral history interview with Gita Frankel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gita Engel Frankel, born in Kalisz, Poland in 1925, describes her family; attending a strict Catholic school; being forced to Zdunska Wola, Poland, where she lived for three years in a ghetto; being on a force march in September 1942 to a Jewish cemetery for a selection; how her father was shot trying to protect her younger brother; being transported to the Łódź ghetto with her mother and older brother; her brother's death from starvation; her deportation to Auschwitz with her mother; seeing flames from the crematorium and smelling burning flesh; being stripped; not receiving tattooed numbers; being sent to Stutthof with her mother; her relocation to Praust (Pruszcz Gdański, Poland) without her mother; making cement runways; hearing Russian planes overhead as the war was nearing its end; her reunion with her mother before they were forced on a death march; hiding in a barn when Russian soldiers found them; being sick after liberation and spending 18 months in a hospital; returning to Poland with her mother; moving to a displaced persons camp in Germany; getting married; training as a dental technician; having two children; and immigrating to the United States in 1957.
    Interviewee
    Gita Frankel
    Date
    interview:  2006 February 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Congregation Shaarey Tikvah, Beachwood, Ohio www.shaareytikvah.org

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 DVD : MPEG-4.

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    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Frankel, Gita, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The interview was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 from Louise K. Freilich, on behalf of Congregation Shaarey Tikvah, Beachwood, Ohio.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:31:47
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