Oral history interview with Yanina Cywinska
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Yanina Cywinska on February 1, 1993, February 8, 1993, and March 8, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
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
- Cywinska, Yanina.
- Yanina Cywinska
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Smuggling--Poland--Warsaw.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Massacres--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Homeless children--Poland--Warsaw.
- Smugglers--Poland--Warsaw.
- Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Rape victims.
- Shooting (Execution)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Gas chambers.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Massacre survivors.
- Women prisoners of war--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Forced labor.
- Catholics--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Personal narratives.
- Ukrainians--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Poland.
- Faith (Judaism)
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Refugee camps.
- Poland--Ethnic relations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death marches.
Genre
- Oral History
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