Overview
- Interview Summary
- Max Rozbruch, born January 20, 1918 in Poland, describes his life before the war; his education at a Cheder school; his Yeshiva education in Lublin when he was 11 years old; his father’s occupation as a businessman; congenial relations between gentiles and Jews in his town before the war; the beginning of the war and the German occupation; his parents’ transport to a nearby town; his escape from a transport and flight into the woods; the benevolence of a neighboring Polish family who gave him food; being found by two polish men who threatened to turn him over to the Germans; his survival by hiding in various bunkers throughout the war; helping save three other people by hiding them with him; his aid in transporting a group of girls back to Hungary; his marriage and family’s immigration to the United States; and his children’s involvement in recording his story of survival.
- Interviewee
- Max Rozbruch
- Interviewer
- Dr. Robert Rozbruch
- Date
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interview:
1990
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of S. Robert Rozbruch
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. S. Robert Rozbruch donated a copy of his father Max Rozbruch’s oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Oral History Branch in March 2012. The video recording, produced by the Rozbruch family, is titled Heroic Humility: The Holocaust survival story of Max Rozbruch,
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:27:52
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