Memory returns to the Vistula Ewa Herbst on life in exile

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Oral History/ POLIN Museum collection

Published on Nov 30, 2021

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Dr. Ewa Herbst was born in Warsaw in 1948. Her mother, Dr. Irena Herbst, née Diamand, was a gynecologist, co-founder and lecturer at the Medical Training School. Her father, Emil Herbst, was a pre-war communist, the managing director of the Central Board of the Popularization of Press and Books "Ruch". The Herbst family, with Jewish roots, was completely assimilated. During March '68, Ewa was a first-year student of electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology. As a result of the anti-Semitic campaign after the March events, she left Poland with her mother and brother, who was 1.5 years younger than her, in November 1969 and settled in Sweden. Ewa's father decided to stay in the country. Thanks to his contacts, Ewa Herbst received permission to visit him in Poland a few years later, but when she tried to visit on her own again, she was not allowed in by the authorities of the time. During the first two years of emigration, Ewa Herbst wrote several dozen poems, which, at the request of friends, were published in 2017 by the publishing house "Austeria" under the title "Dokument podróż. Wiersze". Currently, Ewa Herbst lives in the United States. By profession, she is an electronics engineer and scientist and works in the medical electronics industry. INTERVIEWEE’S NAME: Ewa Herbst BIOGRAPHY OF THE INTERVIEWEE AND DETAILED EXPLANATION OF THE TOPICS: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... INTERVIEW BY: Aleksandra Przeździecka-Kujałowicz RECORDING: Przemysław Jaczewski DATE OF RECORDING: June 8, 2017 PLACE OF RECORDING: Naharijja, Israel COPYRIGHT TO THE RECORDING: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews MOST IMPORTANT THEMES: 00:00:04 – Family, experiences of family members during the anti-Semitic campaign in 1968, decision to leave Poland. 00:05:13 – Emigration to Sweden. 00:06:03 – The interlocutor’s poetic work, publication of poems. 00:16:14 – Fragments of poems. 00:20:33 – Illness and death of brother after arrival in Sweden, feelings about leaving Poland. 00:26:26 – Interviewee’s first visit to Poland, problems with re-entering the country. 00:30:16 – Friends and contacts with them, arrival at the “March” emigrants’ reunion in Israel. 00:33:08 – Beginnings of stay in Sweden, the environment of Polish Jews in Sweden. 00:34:55 – Stories of family members, mother’s participation in the Warsaw Uprising. 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): / mhzp2013 Virtual Shtetl (history and culture of Polish Jews): / wirtualneshtetl Polish Righteous (stories of help provided to Jews during the Holocaust): / polscysprawiedliwi Contact for interview sharing: [email protected] #PolinMuseum #SpokenHistory #Marzec68

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