Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

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Edith Kozlowski - August 19, 2010

Edith Kozlowski was born in 1922 in Radom, Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Edith and her family were placed in the largest of the two ghettos in Radom. In the ghetto, Edith worked in the AVL factory, sewing German uniforms. In 1943, Edith and her sisters were sent to Blizyn, where Edith worked sorting clothes. In the summer of 1944, the sisters were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In December 1944, Edith was sent to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated in April, 1945.

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1. Introduction
2. Early Childhood
3. Pre-War life in Radom I
4. Religious Life
5. High School
6. Pre-War life in Radom II
7. Outbreak of War
8. Life in the Ghetto I
9. Working in the Ghetto
10. Clearing the Ghetto
11. Blizyn I
12. Life in the Ghetto II
13. Life in the Ghetto III
14. Extended Family
15. Blizyn II
16. Blizyn III
17. Traveling to Auschwitz
18. Auschwitz I
19. Auschwitz II
20. Traveling to Bergen-Belsen I
21. Bergen-Belsen
22. Bergen-Belsen II
23. Liberation
24. After Liberation
25. Coming to America
26. Living in Detroit
27. Marriage and Children
28. Family Lost in War
29. Conclusion