Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Ellen Wilson Klein
Publication Date
2-21-2011
Date
2010-06-21
Abstract
Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Renée Hammond. Hammond was born in Uzhhorod, Czechoslovakia, in 1925. She and her family lived comfortably until 1944, when their city was occupied by the Germans. They were marched out of their home and spent several weeks living in a lumberyard before being deported to Auschwitz, where the family was broken up. Hammond and her sister were taken to Essen, Germany, where they worked in the Krupp munitions factory. During a bombardment, the sisters and four other girls escaped from the factory and were sheltered by a German family until the town was liberated. Hammond and her sister were reunited with their brother, and the three siblings got jobs working in the American zone of occupation. Hammond married an American soldier and came to the United States in 1948 and was eventually followed by her brother and sister. Her sister was a witness at the Krupp Trial.
Keywords
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Jewish women in the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Genocide, Crimes against humanity
Extent
01:08:39; 22 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine); Slovakia; Hungary; Auschwitz (Poland); Gelsenkirchen (Germany); Essen (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
F60-00029
Recommended Citation
Hammond, Renée, "Renée Hammond Oral History Interview" (2011). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 12.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/12
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