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StoryCorps: Debbie Fisher

Series: StoryCorps Interview Excerpts
From: StoryCorps
Length: 00:02:32

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Fisher_small Debbie Fisher - On Air Script StoryCorps is an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all. In this clip, Debbie Fisher talks about her father, a survivor of Auschwitz. In/Out: ?My Father was a Holocaust... it?s always with you.? For use in promoting the StoryCorps project or for developing local StoryCorps content.

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Piece Description

Debbie Fisher - On Air Script StoryCorps is an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all. In this clip, Debbie Fisher talks about her father, a survivor of Auschwitz. In/Out: ?My Father was a Holocaust... it?s always with you.? For use in promoting the StoryCorps project or for developing local StoryCorps content.

Broadcast History

NPR Morning Edition 1/27/05

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

Today is the 60th anniversary of the most infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. We mark that anniversary with a story from the oral history project, StoryCorps. StoryCorps has a booth in New York's Grand Central Terminal, and recently Debbie Fisher stepped in. There, she recalled her father Oscar Fisher, who was one of the seven thousand prisoners liberated from Auschwitz.

OUTRO:

Debbie Fisher remembering her father Oscar, a survivor of Auscwitz. She told her story as part of the oral history project StoryCorps. Debbie Fisher has another Aushwitz rememberance at NPR-dot-ORG.

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http://storycorps.net