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1088865
  • Title
    Item 46: Holocaust survivors from Poland ; Adam Zygmunt Szumer interviewed by Kayla Szumer, 1990
  • Call number
    MLOH 500/390-393
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    29/01/1990
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1088865
  • Issue Copy
    Sound Recording : CY MLOH 500/390 - 393
  • Physical Description
    4 sound cassettes (4 hrs.)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Adam Zygmunt Szumer born in Jaslo, Poland, 1930. During war: family moved to Stanislawow in 1939, lived under Russian occupation, moved again in same year to Drohobycz, in 1941 German occupation began, worked in brickworks to avoid deportation and lived in ghetto, when new round up of Jews started in winter of 1942 family sent him into hiding with Polish women, returned to parents in ghetto, got work in oil refinery, hid in bunker for four months in early 1944, Russian liberation in June. After war: moved to Katowice in Poland and attended high school, anti-semitism and pressure to leave Poland. Migrated to Australia via France and U.S.A. in 1947.
  • Copying Conditions
    In copyright:
    Approval for reproduction required: Contact Senior Librarian (Team Leader), Original Materials - Manuscripts
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
  • Finding Aids
    Log of interview available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
  • Alphanumeric designations

    Original Mitchell Library allocated tape number 185.
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