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Oral history interview with Sara Sherman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.60.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0751

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    Oral history interview with Sara Sherman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sara Sherman, born August 8, 1938, discusses her family in Kamenets-Podolsk, Soviet Union (now Ukraine); her father’s conscription into the Soviet Army and his death; German bombings; moving around a lot as a child; her younger brother’s death from scarlet fever; her forty-day stay in the hospital while sick with scarlet fever; her mother’s remarriage and her close relationship with her stepfather; eventually moving with her family and her mother’s brother and sister to Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany; her family joining the SS Exodus journey to Palestine and the conditions onboard; seeing a woman buried at sea; the ship’s encounters with the British; her mother giving birth in Haifa and the baby boy dying soon after; living in the Atlit camp for a few months; celebrating the creation of Israel; moving into the city of Haifa and learning Hebrew; meeting her future husband and their marriage; her mother’s stories of antisemitism in the Soviet Union; visiting the United States in 1968 and moving to Philadelphia, PA with her three children and parents; not telling her children or grandchildren much about her experiences; wanting people to understand that life is a struggle; her good memories of her parents; and her hopes for her children and grandchildren.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Sara Sherman
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2014 May 16
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sherman, Sara, 1938-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Sara Sherman on May 16, 2014 in Washington, DC.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:38
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