Oral history interview with Edith Molner, 1990 February 11 and 18.

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Molner, Edith, 1926-. Oral history interview with Edith Molner, 1990 February 11 and 18.

Oral history interview with Edith Molner, 1990 February 11 and 18.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233699551

Interview with Edith Molner, a Holocaust survivor, concerning her experiences in Hungary and in various extermination camps during the Holocaust. Molner discusses pre-World War II anti-Semitism, her childhood and education, her family religious life, forced labor battalions, confiscation of Jewish property, the creation of the Szeged Ghetto in 1944, everyday ghetto life, her deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944, and processing at Auschwitz. She also talks about her transfer to Birkenau and the living conditions, the death of her parents, survival techniques, her transfer to Lenzing near Mauthausen, factory work, living conditions at Lenzing, liberation by American forces, her journey back to Szeged, the Zionist underground, her illegal entry into Palestine in 1946, and her emigration to the United States.

237 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT