Lidia Zonn was born in 1934 in Vilnius. Her father came from a Protestant family; he was an astronomer by profession, and worked as an assistant at the University Astronomical Observatory in Vilnius. Her mother (Rachela née Zarecka) studied history, but was devoted primarily to her father's scientific career. She died in 1948. In 1939, Lidia Zonn's father received a job offer from the Warsaw Observatory, and the whole family moved to Warsaw. At first, they lived in the astronomical observatory. In 1943, Lidia Zonn and her mother moved to the Institute of Experimental Physics on Hoża Street, then to Malczewskiego Street (19/21) to Jerzy Sołtan's villa, from where they were transferred to the transit camp in Okęcie during the uprising. From there, they were transported to Pruszków, and later to a village near Kraków. The family was reunited in Kraków in 1945 (the father had been in Oflag since 1939). After the war, they lived in a basement on Grażyny Street in Warsaw, and the father took up work at the Institute of Physics at the University of Warsaw. Lidia Zonn graduated from Mikołaj Rej High School in Warsaw and studied at the Film School in Łódź. Professionally, she worked in documentary filmmaking (editing), her husband was a director. INTERVIEWEE’S NAME: Lidia Zonn INTERVIEWED BY: Józef Markiewicz RECORDING: Józef Markiewicz DATE OF RECORDING: January 18, 2019 COPYRIGHT TO THE RECORDING: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews 00:01:03 - Professional work of the interlocutor’s father, position offer in Warsaw; move to Warsaw. 00:03:50 - Information about the interlocutor’s mother, her dedication to her father’s scientific career. English: 00:05:48 - Living in an astronomical observatory; reasons for moving to the Institute of Physics; move to Malczewskiego Street. 00:08:40 - The Warsaw Uprising in Mokotów, occupation of the villa by the German army; placement of the interlocutor and her mother in a camp in Okęcie, from there transfer to Pruszków, then to a village near Kraków. 00:10:43 - Liberation; arrival in Kraków with her mother and meeting her father. 00:11:13 - Return to Poland and work at the University of Warsaw of the interlocutor’s father; arrival to Warsaw with her mother. 00:12:32 - Mother’s illness and death. 00:13:25 - The interlocutor’s school education in Warsaw; studies at the Film School in Łódź. 00:14:40 - Lack of information about the mother’s family; concealment of Jewish origin; no discussion about the fate of the interlocutor’s parents’ families. 00:17:47 - Information about the mother’s family. English: 00:21:50 - The circumstances in which the interlocutor's parents met; information about the father's family; fate of the father's siblings. 00:25:22 - The interlocutor's mother's conversion; the interlocutor's religious identity; relations with her mother and homeschooling during the war, conversations about religion. 00:32:05 - The interlocutor's parents' religious identity. 00:33:39 - Baptism in Vilnius; confirmation; attitude towards the Protestant Church; sense of religious affiliation. 00:38:27 - The Jewish community at the Film School; reflection on their attitude towards their Jewish origins in their youth. 00:40:50 - Relationship with their father and conversations about their mother's origins. 00:43:55 - Living in Mokotów after the war; transfer of their sick mother to the Institute of Physics; organization of life in the post-war situation. 00:47:47 - Repression of knowledge about the mother's Jewish origins; conversations with her father — about her mother, Oflag; no photos of her mother’s family or interest in her fate in her youth. 00:53:40 - Her mother’s documents (kennkarte); people who supported her family during the war. 00:57:12 - The fate of her mother’s siblings; assumptions about the size of her family. 01:00:58 - Awareness of her Jewish origins in 1968; a sense of injustice; no personal experiences of anti-Semitism. 01:08:06 - The film “My Street.” 01:11:33 - A sense of privileged situation and security during the war. 01:15:30 - Her interlocutor’s family situation today; no discussions about her origins. 01:18:38 - National and religious identity; a feeling of alienation from the Jewish tradition. 01:26:59 - Place of burial of her parents. 01:28:51 - The interlocutor's father's affiliation with the Freemasons; his acquaintance with Bronisław Krzyżanowski. 01:32:25 - The father's second marriage. 01:34:35 - Items belonging to the interlocutor's mother. 01:37:45 - The mother's education; loss of her master's thesis during the uprising. 01:50:49 - Motivation for donating the mother's items to the POLIN Museum. Discover the POLIN Museum's oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Subscribe to our channel: / @historiamowionapolin Watch the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews channels: POLIN (announcements and reports from events at the Museum): / m