Ida Shkolnik testimony
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Ida Shkolnik
Biographical History
Ida Shkolnik (originally Chaja Pintow) survived the Holocaust in a ghetto and later in hiding. She was married to Morris Shkolnik and they immigrated to the United States after the war.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Mrs. Shkolnik wrote the memoir in 1988 and gave the original handwritten text to the donor. Ms. Gottlieb sent it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in Sept. 1992, and that department forwarded the document on to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during the same month.
Scope and Content
Contains information about persecution of Ida Shkolnik in a ghetto in occupied Poland; her escape to a forest; her marriage to Morris Shkolnik; their life together as refugees; their immigration to the United States; and their new life in America.
People
- Pintow, Chaja.
- Shkolnik, Morris.
- Shkolnik, Ida (Pintow, Chaja)
- Ida Shkolnik
Subjects
- Glebokie (Belarus)
- Refugees.
- Holocaust survivors.
- United States.
- Antisemitism.
- Escapes.
- Autobiography.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Glebokie.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Soviet Union.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document