They deprived me Polish citizenship. Barbara Schmid about life during the war and emigration

INTERVIEWEE: Barbara Schmid
INTERVIEWEE’S BIOGRAPHY AND DETAILED THEMES DEVELOPMENT: sztetl.org.pl/en/oral-history...
INTERVIEWER: Józef Markiewicz
OPERATOR: Piotr Boruszkowski
RECORDING DATE: 20th April 2018
RECORDING COPYRIGHT: POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews
THE MOST IMPORTANT THEMES:
00:00:10 - Place and date of birth of the interviewee, parents, extermination of Jews in Mińsk Mazowiecki.
00:03:56 - The birth of the interviewee, her stays in orphanages in Warsaw and Nowy Targ (Kowaniec).
00:07:54 - Parents’ hiding in Warsaw, 64 Targowa street.
00:09:58 - Leaving the orphanage.
00:13:31 - Recollections from the orphanage.
00:15:27 - Journey from the orphanage to Mińsk Mazowiecki, return to Warsaw.
00:16:38 - Unwillingness to give the child away in the orphanage and the subsequent relationship with the institution.
00:21:06 - Attitude towards baptism.
00:23:43 - Information on the interviewee's parents, grandparents, further family.
00:26:56 - Attitude towards Judaism and Jewish tradition.
00:29:44 - Childhood in Warsaw (identity, environment, antisemitism).
00:34:32 - Anti-Semitic campaign in 1968, considering emigration, work in Polish Television, accusation of espionage, emigration to Austria, fictitious marriage, withdrawal of Polish citizenship.
00:40:26 - The years 1967-1968 from the perspective of working in television, mother’s dismissal from work, father's reluctance to leave.
00:45:02 - Father’s work in “Trybuna Ludu”, conversations at home concerning departure.
00:47:46 - The beginnings of life in Austria.
00:55:49 - Contact with parents after departure (first trip to Poland, trips to Romania).
00:58:07 - Feelings related to her parents staying in Poland.
01:03:38 - Life before emigration.
01:05:19 - The anti-Semitic events of 1968.
01:06:24 - Anti-Semitism in Austria.
01:11:23 - Identity
01:15:55 - Fears arising from the post-Holocaust past, parents’ burials in Warsaw.
01:20:23 - Reunion of emigrants in Ashkelon.
01:24:40 - Volunteer work after retiring.
01:34:39 - Attitude towards Poland, comparing anti-Semitism in Poland and Austria, attitude of Germans and Austrians to the Shoah and the Romani genocide.
01:47:45 - A book by Leon Guz (Barbara Schmid’s father), parents’ life in the ghetto.
01:52:58 - Message
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