Oral history interview with Rosa Kresner
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette,
Creator(s)
- Sophie Gelski
Biographical History
The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Rosa Kresner on February 22, 1994 for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
Archival History
Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Sophie Gelski
- Rosa Kresner
- Kresner, Rosa, 1913-
Subjects
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Passing (Identity)--Poland--Warsaw.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Hiding places--Poland--Warsaw.
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Australia.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
Genre
- Oral History
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