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Joil (Saul) Alpern transcript, 1940-2009, Date acquired: 02/27/2009

 

Summary

Creator:
Alpern, Joil, 1930-
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], joil (Saul) Alpern transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_09_0037.

Background

Scope and content:

Saul Alpern's oral history transcript describes in detail his experiences growing up in Romania before World War II, the beginning of the war, listening to Adolf Hitler on the radio, life in labor camps, forced marches, hiding during the war, anti-Semitism, liberation, Zionist youth organizations, and his memoir.

Biographical / historical:

Joil (Saul) Alpern was born in Bukovina, Romania in 1930, one of four children to Isaac and Rosa Alpern. Saul and his family hid in the forests in mid-1941 after Bukovina was captured by the Axis powers. They were then sent to Czernowitz in Bessarabia, Transnistria, and Stepanki in the Ukraine. Saul returned to his hometown in 1944 and became a mine picker for the Russians until liberation.

Acquisition information:

Donated

Oral history conducted by Erica Silbiger in Miami, Florida.

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], joil (Saul) Alpern transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_09_0037.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA