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Oral history interview with Martin Kohn

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.250.11 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0011

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    Oral history interview with Martin Kohn

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Martin Kohn, born in a small Hungarian farm village in 1929, describes his family having to give up farming during the Depression; his father moving to Satmar, Rumania (Satu Mare, Romania) and establishing a factory that produced sportswear; growing up in a family of seven children; his family having some idea that the Jews in Poland were being abused after the Nazi invasion; Jewish refugees passing through the area; the Hungarian fascists rounding up the Jews for deportation to concentration camps in Poland; Jews being temporarily put into a ghetto before they were shipped to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944; being in Birkenau for a week before being shipped to the Płaszów concentration camp; staying in Płaszów until around September when he was shipped to Gross-Rosen and Bolkenhain, where he did hard physical labor; being forced on a death march as the Soviet troops approached; going to Hirshberg (in Jelenia Góra, Poland) and then to Dörnhau (Kolce, Poland); and the Nazi guards fleeing days before the Soviet Army came through on May 8, 1945.
    Interviewee
    Martin Kohn
    Interviewer
    Esther Finder
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Esther Toporek Finder

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kohn, Martin, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Esther Toporek Finder, President of Generations of the Shoah - Nevada, produced the oral history interview with Martin Kohn in partnership with Raymode Fiol, President of the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada, Brett Levner, film professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), and Sun City Anthem TV in Henderson, NV.
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    2023-11-16 09:34:52
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