Interview with Rosa Strygler,
Project: Voices of the Holocaust Oral History Project
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Strygler, a Jew from a Hasidic family in Krakow, Poland, first gives an overview of her experience during the Second World War, later providing details on each stage: her family's confinement in the Krakow Ghetto until 1942 or 1943, their experiences in Auschwitz concentration camp, her escape from a train outbound from Auschwitz, and her work for a wealthy gentile family in Budapest, Hungary. She discusses her move to the United States after the war, and there her pursuit of the "American Dream" and her eventual reconnection with religion and with her past.Interview Accession
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World War, 1939-1945--Concentration campsInterview Rights
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