Oral History Interview with Rose Fine
Rose Fine (née Hollender) born in Ozorków, Poland in 1917, describes her Orthodox Jewish family; her father, who was a shochet; the living conditions during the German occupation before and after the establishment of the Ozorków Ghetto in 1941; the health conditions in the ghetto; deportations; her work in the ghetto hospital, where children were put to starve to death; the behavior of the Volksdeutsche in Ozorków; her mother’s deportation to Chelmno, Poland, where she was gassed to death; witnessing the deportation of the old and infirm in chloroform-filled Panzer trucks in March 1941; seeing the public hanging of 10 Jews; being transferred to the Łódź Ghetto in 1942 where she worked for Mrs. Rumkowski until she was deported to Auschwitz in August 1944; going through a selection and sent to the Freiberg, Germany airplane factory; being transferred later to Mauthausen in Austria, where she was liberated by the Americans in the spring of 1945; the birth of a baby girl (both mother and baby survived) just prior to liberation; receiving help from a German farmer; staying briefly in Łódź and Gdansk; life in Gdansk, where she got married; living with her husband for four years in Munich, Germany, where they belonged to Rabbi Lazerowski’s synagogue and she attended the ORT school; immigrating to the US in 1949 with the help of the Joint Distribution Committee; and the story of the hiding of a Torah by a non-Jew in Ozorków and how he gave it to a survivor from Ozorków to take to Atlanta, Georgia.
Date: | 03/10/1982 |
Interviewer: | Josey G. Fisher |
Interviewee: | Rose Fine |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Childbirth. Hanging--Poland--Ozorków. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Ozorków. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Poland--Ozorków. Starvation. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals--Poland. Women--Personal narratives. Freiberg (Germany) Gdansk (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Munich (Germany) Ozorków (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration. Upper Austria (Austria) Fine, Rose, 1917- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Freiberg (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) World ORT Union. |
Location: | Ozorków, Poland Ozorkow Ghetto Lodz Ghetto Auschwitz concentration camp Freiberg concentration camp Mauthausen concentration camp USA |
Permalink: | https://hoha.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/oral-history-interview-with-rose-fine/ |
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