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Oral history interview with Cecylia Thibault

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.150.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0759

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    Oral history interview with Cecylia Thibault

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    Interview Summary
    Cecylia Thibault, born on June 1, 1934 in Ropczyce, Poland, discusses her gratitude for the opportunity to share her experiences; her family background and her parents’ arranged marriage; her father’s death in 1937; her and her mother’s time spent living with her grandmother; her persistent hunger; her mother’s and grandmother’s work for Jews; the invasion of Poland; seeing Jewish people from the town beaten if they resisted boarding the trucks; the shock and fear felt by the Polish people in town; how her mother received a notice to report for labor service; her and her mother’s transport to Germany and arrival at a farm outside of Pößneck; her book; her mother’s work; being bullied by the Polish foreman’s children; the presence of French and Russian prisoners of war; her mother having a son in 1942; being transferred to a smaller farm at the end of 1943; being forced to wear a “P” on her clothes for “Polish”; becoming fluent in German; turning 10 years old and joining the workers; becoming ill; being transferred to a factory that made rifle stocks; liberation by American soldiers in April 1945; moving through a succession of displaced persons camps; her mother’s remarriage; her family’s arrival in New York in April 1948; various moves and jobs around New York; discovering at age 18 that she was an American citizen by birth; becoming a receptionist and bookkeeper for a Polish newspaper; her marriage in 1961 and move to Manchester, NH; and the importance of forgiveness and education.
    Note: At the very end, photos from Mrs. Thibault’s book are shown.
    Interviewee
    Cecylia Thibault
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2014 July 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Cecylia Thibault on July 17, 2014 in Hernando, FL.
    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 08:04:41
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