Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Tori Chambers Lockler
Publication Date
1-13-2010
Date
2009-11-06
Abstract
This is an oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Sylvia Wien Richman, who was born in Krakow, Poland in 1938. When she was a small child, she and her parents moved to Lemberg shortly before that city was occupied by the Nazis, living in the ghetto there. Her father was deported to the Janowska concentration camp, and Richman and her mother remained in the ghetto for a few more months before escaping. Richman was separated from her mother and spent two years in a convent outside of Warsaw. After the war, she stayed with her aunt until her father could return to Poland for her. Eventually, they reunited with her mother, who had been in a displaced persons camp in Austria, and immigrated to the United States. Richman describes her experiences in the Lemberg Ghetto, in the convent, in the displaced persons camp, and her family's journey to America and their lives as Americans. At the end of the interview, she is joined by her husband, Marvin Halem.
Keywords
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Hidden children (Holocaust)--Poland, Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Genocide, Crimes against humanity
Extent
01:50:54; 34 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Poland--Czernichów (Kraków); Lwów (Poland)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
F60-00016
Recommended Citation
Richman, Sylvia Wien and Halem, Marvin, "Sylvia Wien Richman and Marvin Halem Oral History Interview" (2010). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/2
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