Oral testimony of Golda Finkler
Extent and Medium
32 sound cassettes, analog
55 digital files, WAV
Biographical History
Dr. Kaja Finkler donated her mother Golda Finkler's audio recordings to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2018. Golda Finkler recorded her family history and life story as the basis for the book "Lives Lived and Lost: East European History Before, During, and After World War II as Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother" which she coauthored with her daughter Kaja Finkler.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Kaja Finkler
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions on access. Recordings are not available on the internet. They are accessible onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and available upon request to researchers and educators.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
People
- Finkler, Golda, 1903-1991.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Mental health.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Purim.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
- Jewish families.
- Synagogues--Poland--Skarzysko-Kamienna.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Death marches.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Hiding places.
- Yom Kippur.
- Holocaust survivors--Psychology.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Leipzig (Germany)
- Skarzysko-Kamienna (Poland)
- Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Mothers and daughters.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Genre
- Oral History