Mira Kimmelman interview
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Title
Mira Kimmelman interview
Creator
Crawford, Fred Roberts (Interviewer)
Kimmelman, Mira (Interviewee)
Becker, Sylvia (Interviewer)
Description
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Kimmelman was born near Danzig in 1923, and her family moved to Danzig in 1929. In 1939, they moved to Warsaw and then to Tomaszow to be near her grandparents. In 1943, they were deported to a work camp at Bleishen, and then in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Kimmelman was sent to the Hindenburg sub-camp. Later, Auschwitz was evacuated, and she ended up in Bergen-Belsen, where she was eventually liberated. Location of interview: unknown.
Identifier
06080100CFSU00004001000
06080100CFSU00004001000.PDF
Subject
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Hindenburg (Concentration camp)
Danzig (Concentration camp)
Crawford, Fred Roberts
Kimmelman, Mira
Becker, Sylvia
Coverage
Gdansk (Poland)
Source
19 pages (oral history transcript) Typescript with handwritten edits.
Date
3 - 1 - 1981
Contributor
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Rights
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Relation
PDF file (72 dpi).
Format
PDF (72 dpi); 3100 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
Files
Collection
Citation
Crawford, Fred Roberts (Interviewer), Kimmelman, Mira (Interviewee), and Becker, Sylvia (Interviewer), “Mira Kimmelman interview,” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed November 3, 2025, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/111.