Possible interview Questions

I know we are suppose to start our blog once we interview our survivor, but the anticipation is building up. We have the interview scheduled for Thursday the 8th.

Possible interview questions for Miriam

Before the war

1. What city were you born in? When were your born.

2. Can you describe the city/town? Jews/ Non Jews

3. What language did you speak?

4. Describe your family, including the role of your mother and father in

the household and their occupations. Describe your family life and your

daily life. Childhood Recollections?

5. What was your favorite thing to do when you were growing up?

6. What type of education did you receive? Secular? Religious?

During the War

1. Was your family politically affiliated?
2. How did you become aware of the Nazi presence? Do you remember the first day of occupation? Any recollections of seeing the Nazis? Experiences? Feelings? Discussions? If you were a child, how did your parents or other adults respond to the Nazi presence?
3. Did you live in the guetto? Specific living conditions—food, sanitation, medical facilities.
4. When were you taken to the camp? Where you given a job? How ddi you get this job.
5. How did people treat each other in the camp?
6. Give names and recollections of those with whom you worked.
7. What was your emotional state? What kept you going?
8. Do you remember the date you were liberated?
9. What happened after liberation? Refugee camp? Did you concider going somewhere else other than the U.S.
10. Specific living conditions—food, sanitation, medical facilities.
11. Describe your evacuation.

After the war

1. Describe your circumstances leading up to liberation. What was your physical and mental state?
2. Feelings? Fears, dreams, hopes, questions?
3. What happened to perpetrators? Prisoner functionaries? Any retaliation from prisoners to their former captors?
4. Did you talk about your experiences? Who listened?
5. To where did you emigrate? When, why, and how?
6. Do you think that survivors with a wide range of Holocaust experiences share commonalities? Describe.