Item 04: Holocaust survivors from Poland ; Golda Blumner interviewed by Caroline Haski, 13-23 July, 1990

MLOH 500/278-280

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13/07/1990, 23/07/1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

1087261

Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/278-280

3 sound cassettes (3 hrs.)

Golda Blumner, nee Stotter, born in Kroscienko, Poland, 1911. During war: first married in 1939, as conditions deteriorated fled to Lvov, in 1940 Russians sent her and husband to labour camp in Siberia, worked cutting down trees as P.O.W.s, after three and a half years was moved to a village in Moskovskaja oblast Gorki, had a baby in 1943 in terrible conditions, and remained in Russia living under harsh conditions. After war: in summer of 1945 returned to Poland on cattle train and ended up in Auschwitz, warned not to return home because of possibility of being killed by peasants and sent to live with German woman and daughter in Dzierzoniow, escaped into Czechoslovakia with husband and child, had second child in Moravsk Ostrav in 1947, joined brother in Australia, coming via France, in 1948.

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Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 142.