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Post, Florence

 Digital Record
Identifier: post, florence_1975.pdf

Dates

  • Creation: undated

Biographical / Historical

Jim Catler interviewed Florence Post at her home in West Hartford on April 7, 1975

General Note

subjects of interview include: growing up Jewish in Lithuania pre-world war II; anti-semitism in Lithuania; World War II; the Kovno Ghetto; the Holocaust; attempt to escape the Kovno Ghetto; hiding with a farm family; failure of US forces to adequately halt Holocaust in final days of war; immigration to United States; lingering anti-semitism in America at low level but still dangerous.

General Note

Contents of folder include: Envelope containing envelope containing 5x7 black and white phtographs of Post family in 1930s; envelope containing 3x2 and 2x2 black and white photographs of Post family; photocopy of cloth scrap containing numbers, presumably concentration camp ID; photocopies of book pages showing various aspects of Seventh Fort concentration camp, including piles of bodies; photocopy of book pages showing pictures of Kovno Ghetto; photocopy of handwritten note explaining who's who in photographs; scanned information checklist; trasncript outline; 2 copies of oral history transcript.

Repository Details

Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository

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