Interview with Pauline M. Davidson, who grew up in Poland and spent the early part of World War II fleeing the Nazis.

Davidson witnessed many atrocities and was severely beaten by a Nazi soldier before escaping into Russia. She immigrated to the United States with her husband in 1951. In 1991, Louisa Weinrib of Montgomery, Alabama, interviewed Davidson about her experiences. From 1990 to 1992, interviewed five J...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/records/id/518
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Summary:Davidson witnessed many atrocities and was severely beaten by a Nazi soldier before escaping into Russia. She immigrated to the United States with her husband in 1951. In 1991, Louisa Weinrib of Montgomery, Alabama, interviewed Davidson about her experiences. From 1990 to 1992, interviewed five Jewish World War II veterans and nine Jews who were either Holocaust survivors or descendents of survivors. (The term "Holocaust survivor" is defined by the Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors as a "person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, and political policies of the Nazis and their Allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes refugees, people in hiding, etc.")