Mala Dorfman Oral History
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Dublin Core
Title
Mala Dorfman Oral History
Description
An interview with Mala Weintraub Dorfman, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mala Weintraub Dorfman was born in Lódz, Poland in 1923. When the war broke out in 1939, Mala and three of her five siblings were sent to live with their grandmother in the Kozienice ghetto. Mala worked as a nurse in the ghetto until she was deported to Skarzysko where she worked in an ammunitions factory for two years. She was deported to Czestochowa where she was liberated a year later by the Russians. After the war, Mala returned to Lódz, married and was reunited with her sisters in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. Mala lived with her husband in Germany until heir immigration to the United States in 1949
Oral History Item
Interviewer
Bolkosky, Sidney M
Interviewee
Dorfman, Mala Weintraub
Date Recorded
2005-09-15
Collection
Citation
“Mala Dorfman Oral History,” Michigan Oral History Database, accessed January 3, 2025, http://www.database.michiganoha.org/items/show/1214.