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Oral history interview with Jakob Ginzberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.14 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0014

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    Oral history interview with Jakob Ginzberg

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    Interview Summary
    Jakob Ginzberg, born in Łódź, Poland on March 10, 1920, describes being raised in a family of seven children; his father, who was a Gerrer Chasid and the owner of a small knitting factory; his father’s death when Jakob was 14 years old; his family escaping the ghetto with the help of a Volkdeutsch acquaintance; going to his mother’s hometown of Koinck (near Radom, Poland); being taken to Chelmno and Lublin, where he was forced to work on airplanes; being taken to Ukraine to do forced labor on roads and fortifications; having an accident and going to the hospital; being sent back to Koinck; winding up in the Radom ghetto, where he worked in a bicycle factory; learning the electrical welding trade, which later became the secret of his survival; working in a munitions factory in Skolna (ph) as a welder; being taken on a five-day march as the Russians approached; winding up in Auschwitz; continuing to Wehingen, Germany, where there was a French prisoner of war camp and eventually to Dachau; being taken to Seefeld and Garmisch Partenkirchen, where he was saved by a German woman; being liberated by the United States Army; and believing that he survived in order to share his story with future generations.
    Interviewee
    Jakob Ginzberg
    Interviewer
    Rita Lapidus
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 26

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ginzberg, Jakob, 1920-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview on November 26,1995, in Melbourne, Australia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired the tape of the interview in July 1996.
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    2023-11-16 08:29:06
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