Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Judy Schreiber - February 1, 2013

Introduction

Okay, today is uh, February 21, 2011. And we are at the home of Judy Schreiber who is doing an interview for Portraits of Honor. And we thank Judy, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

And hopefully we can share this as well with uh, maybe the Holocaust Memorial Center and the University of Michigan-Dearborn...

Mm-hm, mm-hm.

Which does oral histories.

Right.

Okay, Judy your name is Judy Schreiber.

Mm-hm.

S-C-H-R-E-I-B-E-R.

That's right.

Okay, and Judy uh, may I call you Judy?

Yes, yes.

Okay, and what was your name at birth?

Jindriska Tevlovichova.

You must please spell.

J-I-N-D-R-I-S-K-A, Jindriska and Tevlovichova, I, I hope I get it right T-E-V-L-O-V-I-C-H-O-V-A. Tevlovichova.

Tevlovichova?

Right.

Okay, good, good. Alright, now I'll do this as well. And um, where were you born?

I was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Praha that was my address there ha.

Wow, you have a great memory.

[laughs] Well that I remember.

Okay, I'm just going to check the--okay, I'm going to move you over.

Oh, maybe I shouldn't be moving.

No, you're fine, you're fine.

Okay.

You're fine where you are, okay. Good, alright. Okay, good. Okay, and um, what is your uh, date of birth?

12/29/38.

Okay, and where did you grow up?

Um, we lived in Prague until uh, I was a little past three years old. And from Prague we were taken uh, in a transport to Thereisenstadt.

Oh boy.

And that's where I grew up the next um, three and a half years, I guess three years uh, I was six and a half when we left there.

Okay, you were six and a half years old?

Mm-hm.


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