| Title: |
Felicia Fuksman
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Tulane University. Southern Institute for Education and Research
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| Collection: |
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors
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| Description: |
Felicia Fuksman was born in Lodz, Poland. She was nineteen years old when the war began. She worked as a nurse in the Lodz ghetto until August 1944 when she was deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp. She was later sent to work in an airplane factory in Germany where she was liberated by the Russians in 1945. No one in her family was alive. The Nazis had murdered her two brothers, two sisters, and parents. Felicia moved to New Orleans in 1950. The following interview was conducted by the Institute's Holocaust Education Specialist, Plater Robinson.
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| URL: |
http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/felicia_fuksman.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Fuksman, Felicia, 1920-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1920
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Lodz, Lódzkie, Poland; Lódozkie, Poland; Poland; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Robinson, Plater
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| Historical events discussed: |
Holocaust, 1938-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Louisiana; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Emigration and immigration; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, 1938-1945; Immigrants; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Louisiana; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025926-27857
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