Oral history interview with Alina Curson
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Alina Curson on July 17, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Alina Curson
- Curson, Alina.
Subjects
- Czestochowa (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Forced Labor--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland.
- Sosnowiec (Wojewodztwo Slaskie, Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
- Refugee--Germany.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Passing (Identity)--Poland--20th century.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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