Oral history interview with Henia Shylit

Identifier
irn723297
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2021.3.1
  • RG-90.161.0001
Dates
1 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2002
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn723297

Extent and Medium

1 digital file, MP3

Biographical History

Danielle Shylit donated the oral history interview with her grandmother Henia Shylit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2021. Danielle Shylit produced the interview in spring 2002 when she was a middle school humanities teacher at Sparhawk School in Amesbury, MA. Students in her Holocaust elective class conducted the interview by telephone.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Danielle Shylit

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

People

  • Shylit, Henia Rozencwig, 1922-2004.
  • Henia Shylit

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Women.
  • Forced labor.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust.
  • Refugee camps--Germany--Bergen (Celle)
  • Women--Personal narratives.
  • Bergen (Celle, Germany)
  • Kozienice (Poland)
  • Lower Saxony (Germany)
  • Death marches.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kozienice.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Women concentration camp inmates.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Jews--Poland--Kozienice.

Genre

  • Oral History
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