Overview
- Interview Summary
- Born in Poland, Herman Kurt Seiden recounts his family's history in Portugal and Poland, their experiences during the Holocaust; his service in the Russian army; his wife's experience in hiding and then in the woods with Polish partisans; his arrangement with a Jewish organization to desert the Russian army and come to the United States; leaving Germany with his wife; and arriving in New York City in 1946 on the Ernie Pyle.
- Interviewee
- Herman K. Seiden
- Date
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undated:
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Louis Seiden
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Extent
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1 CD-ROM.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Hiding places--Poland. Men--Personal narratives.
- Personal Name
- Seiden, Herman Kurt.
- Corporate Name
- Russian Army of Liberation
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Louis Seiden donated a copy of his father Herman Kurt Seiden's audio recording to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center in December 2010. The recording was transferred to the Museum's Oral History Branch in February 2011.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:21:41
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