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No results match this search term. Check spelling and try again. Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department volunteer staff.
The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust. Nathan Kalman b. Jerome Stasson b. Jerome Stashevsky discusses his early life in Detroit, Michigan; coming from a family of Polish immigrants; being drafted into the U. Henry Kolber b.
Ruth Greifer b. Anna Wollner b. Erwin Forley b. Gerald Rosenstein b. Ivan Becker, born in , discusses his childhood in Budapest, Hungary; his memories of the "hanging priest of Budapest" who killed Jews for refusing conversion to Christianity; the Nazi invasion of Hungary; harsh restrictions on Jews; his father who was sent to Buchenwald; being sent on a death march with his mother from Budapest towards Austria; being separated from his mother and never seeing her again; his life in hiding; his experiences in an unnamed ghetto; his return to Budapest after liberation; his time in a displaced persons camp in Bad Gastein, Austria; his immigration to the United States as a "war orphan" in ; and his adjustment to life after the Holocaust and success in business.
George Pisik, born May 25, , describes his experience as a soldier in the U. Ruth Rosicka, born August 13, in Nowice, Czechoslovakia present day Poland , describes her Polish father who was actively pro-Zion; escaping bombing in Bielsko, Poland; escaping through Krakow, Poland and being found by the Russian army; being deported to a camp in Siberia from which she was amnestied in ; being drafted by the Czechoslovakian army and working in the medical brigade, where in she met her husband; being taken to the Carpathian Mountains, to the war front, where they stayed until February ; being released from the Army in May because of her pregnancy; and living in Prague, Czech Republic after the war.
