Oral history interview with Bella Zgnilek
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- David P. Boder
Biographical History
David P. Boder conducted the interview with Bella Zgnilek on August 4, 1946, at the Jewish Committee's home for adults in Paris, France. Boder recorded the interview in English and Bernard Wolf assisted with the first draft translation of the interview into English. Donald Procotor provided editing. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview from the Library of Congress in 1998.
Archival History
Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from the Library of Congress
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961.
- Zgnilek, Bella.
- Bella Zgnilek
- David P. Boder
Corporate Bodies
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Gabersdorf (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Spinning.
- Poland.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Singing.
- Shooting (Execution)--Poland.
- Jews--Poland.
- Jewish refugees--France--Paris.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--France--Interviews.
- Flax industry.
- Curfews--Poland.
- Concentration camps--Songs and music.
- Concentration camp inmates' writings.
- Trutnov (Czech Republic)
- Germany.
- Libeč (Trutnov, Czech Republic)
- Paris (France)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Poetry.
- Oral History
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