Oral history interview with Polina Sorkin
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Polina Sorkin on September 3, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2000.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Sorkin, Polina.
- Polina Sorkin
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Ukraine--Kruti (Odes'ka oblast')
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Kruti (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine)
- Orphanages--Ukraine--Balta.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish families--Ukraine.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Balta (Ukraine)
- Odes'ka oblast' (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Ukraine.
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.
Genre
- Oral History
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