Oral history interview with Ruth H. Bloch, 1977
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- Name
- Bloch, Ruth (Interviewee)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Ruth H. Bloch, 1977
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Ruth H. Bloch, 1977
- Abstract
- Ruth Bloch (1925-) gives testimony about her experiences during the Holocaust. Bloch grew up in the Netherlands. She recounts the Nazi invasion of that country and the initial experiences of Jews during the occupation. She discusses her imprisonment in the Netherlands and forced labor in a factory there. She describes being transported to Auschwitz, the conditions and her experiences at the concent ration camp, and the forced labor done by the prisoners. She discusses being moved to various camps in Germany as the Nazis retreated, the end of the war, and experience as a refugee in Denmark
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust survivors; World War, 1939-1945; Netherlands History German occupation, 1940-1945; Bloch, Ruth; Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1977
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Sound quality is poor at times
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Interviewed on March 6, 1977
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7091739
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/h09d-fp81
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.