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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.226 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0226
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… then to camp Gunskirchen; being taken to a camp in Hirshing, Austria; meeting up with the Jewish brigade; traveling with the brigade to Treviso, Italy…
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… April they were marched to San Florian in Austria and then to camp Gunskirchen. 5.55 Beginning of May he and a friend escaped to a village and saw…
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… concentration camp in Austria. In Melk, the prisoners were forced to carve tunnels into the sides of mountains; Marty’s father died from exhaustion and starvation…
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…. The first arrow points to the location of Auschwitz. Later, Marty and his family were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Our second…
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