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Oral history interview with Arielle Potasznik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.345.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0774

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    Oral history interview with Arielle Potasznik

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    Interview Summary
    Arielle Potasznik (born on June 18, 1943 in a convent in Tirlemont, Belgium, where her mother Golda Potasznik (née Zinger or Zingier) had taken refuge) discusses the circumstances that led to the interview; her parents’ Polish backgrounds, educations, and life in Belgium; her father’s participation in the armed resistance and his execution in September 1943; the help she, her older brother, and her mother received from members of the resistance after her father’s execution; her mother’s struggles in finding work and being a single parent; her mother’s efforts to get recognition from the Belgian government for her late husband’s resistance actions; her mother’s death in 1955; moving to Israel to be with an uncle and living in the kibbutz Ginegar for a short time; returning to Belgium in 1956 and living in a Jewish children’s home in Rhode-Saint-Genèse; her passion for painting and work in theater; and her marriage and two daughters.
    Interviewee
    Arielle Potasznik
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2014 October 30

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Arielle Potasznik on October 30, 2014.
    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 08:04:46
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