Rudy Landesberg oral history interview, 1988 November 13

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Summary

Title:
Rudy Landesberg oral history interview
Dates:
1988 November 13
Creators:
Landesberg, Rudy and Sokolsky, David
Abstract:
This collection comprises one sound disc of an oral history interview with Rudy Landesberg conducted by the Holocaust Media Project on November 13, 1988.
Containers:
Disk: Tauber Holocaust Library Archives
Extent:
0.1 Linear feet comprising one sound disc
Language:
Preferred citation:

Rudy Landesberg oral history interview - OHP.8383, Tauber Holocaust Library - JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises one sound disc of an oral history interview with Rudy Landesberg. The interview was conducted by David Sokolsky on behalf of the Holocaust Media Project on November 13, 1988. Rudy Landesberg is a Holocaust survivor.

The interview describes Ms. Landesberg's childhood in Ostrova, Czechoslovakia; her marriage to a Polish Jewish engineer in 1938; the invasion of Ostrova by Nazi Germany in March 1939; and her husband's decision to return to Poland. Ms. Landesberg describes their attempts to leave Czechoslovakia; her husband's success in crossing the border by jumping off a train; and his offer of employment in Turkey and move there. She discusses obtaining a Polish passport while awaiting a move to Poland; difficulties in Czechoslovakia for Jews; and her flight across the Polish border in June 1939. Ms. Landesberg describes obtaining a visa to Turkey in Warsaw; living with her husband in Sivas, Turkey; and their decision to emigrate to the United States. She discusses her husband obtaining visas to the United States; their move to the United States; and adapting to life in a new country.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Judith Janec
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2012-06-27T10:21-0700

Access and use

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Preferred citation:

Rudy Landesberg oral history interview - OHP.8383, Tauber Holocaust Library - JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California

Location of this collection:
JFCS Holocaust Center
2245 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115, US
Contact:
(415) 449-3717
HolocaustCenter@jfcs.org
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