Oral history interview with Yanina Cywinska
Extent and Medium
4 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Yanina Cywinska on October 17, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
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
- Yanina Cywinska
- Cywinska, Yanina.
Subjects
- Cannibalism.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Homosexuality.
- Sexual harassment.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Female friendship.
Genre
- Oral History
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