Oral history interview with Yanina Cywinska
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Yanina Cywinska on February 1, 1993, February 8, 1993, and March 8, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
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
- Cywinska, Yanina.
- Yanina Cywinska
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Massacres--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Poland--Ethnic relations.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Poland.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Personal narratives.
- Women prisoners of war--Poland.
- Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Massacre survivors.
- Shooting (Execution)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Gas chambers.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Rape victims.
- Forced labor.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Smuggling--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Homeless children--Poland--Warsaw.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Catholics--Personal narratives.
- Ukrainians--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Smugglers--Poland--Warsaw.
- Faith (Judaism)
Genre
- Oral History
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