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Oral History Interview with Hilda Rubinstein Green, January 2, 1990

Description: Interview with Hilda Rubinstein-Green, a Holocaust survivor from Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). Green discusses growing up in Memel, the Jewish community, her family background, Hitler, fleeing to Krottingen, returning to Memel to destroy valuables so the Germans couldn't take them, moving to Kovno, having a sympathetic German officer as a tenant, moving to the ghetto, life there, executions, labor, suicides, internment at Stutthof, her mother's declining health, a forced march … more
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Date: January 2, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Rubinstein-Green, Hilda
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Oral History Interviews with Brigitte Friedmann Altman, December, 1989

Description: Interview with Brigitte Friedmann Altman, a holocaust survivor from Memel (Klaipeda), Lithuania. Altman discusses growing up in the Jewish community of Memel, education, events in Germany before the war, the Soviet invasion, fleeing to Kaunas, the German invasion and relocation to the ghetto and life there, the separation of the able-bodied and the weak by the SS, evacuations of the ghetto, escaping to live with a non-Jewish family, working their farm, returning to Kaunas after the return of th… more
Date: {1989-12-19,1989-12-20}
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Friedmann Altman, Brigitte
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