Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Paula Kornblum Popowski
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Paula Kornblum Popowski
- Date:
- 1997
- Interviewer:
- Grossman, Michael Samuel
- Interviewee:
- Popowski, Paula Kornblum, 1923-
- Description:
- In 1942, Paula Kornblum and her sister Hannah escaped the mass murder of Jews in their home town of Kaluszyn, Poland, at the hands of the Nazis. Assuming false identities, the two lived and worked in Cz?stochowa, Poland, until the Russian liberation. Paula describes returning to Kaluszyn after the war, living in a Displaced Persons camp, and the emigration process. She married Henry Popowski, also of Kaluszyn, and they and their first-born son immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, with the help of their landsmen.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Popowski, Paula Kornblum, 1923- -- Interviews
- Topical Subject:
- Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Jews -- Poland -- Kaluszyn -- Social life and customs, Jews -- Poland -- Kaluszyn -- History, World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Kaluszyn, World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw, World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Czestochowa, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives, Jewish, Holocaust survivors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -– History, and Refugee camps -- Germany –- Berlin
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-148
- Digitization Specifications:
- Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.
- Internet Media Type:
- application/pdf;audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Digital resource copyright 2011, The College of Charleston. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 220737
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