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, Refugee camps -- Germany –- Berlin

Geographic Subject:

Lowcountry

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Shelving Locator:

MSS 1035-148

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Copyright Status Statement:

Copyright © Jewish Heritage Collection

Access Information:

For more information, contact Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston SC 29424.

Admin ID:

220737