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Oral history interview with Hank Brodt

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.103.3 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0003

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    Oral history interview with Hank Brodt

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hank (born Henek) Brodt, born December 1, 1925 in Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine), describes living with his mother, father, brother, and sister in Boryslaw; helping to support his family starting at age 14; the town containing a mix of Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, with little discrimination before World War II; attending Hebrew school; the Nazi invasion and Boryslaw being invaded in 1941 and the formation of a Jewish committee (Judenrat); the draft of Polish citizens beginning February-March 1941; Jews having to wear a star; many dying from typhus; the huge liquidation in September 1942, during which his mother was deported; a forced labor camp in the outskirts of Boryslaw; life in the ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto at the end of 1943; the death of his sister and losing track of her child, who was put in an orphanage shortly before the liquidation; being sent by cattle car to Płaszów on April 13, 1944; being a messenger in the labor camp; a childbirth in the camp; the music in the evenings; being sent to work in Wieliczka from June-August 1944; being sent by cattle car to Mauthausen concentration camp; being in Mauthausen for two weeks and then sent to Melk; a man who tried to commit suicide; being evacuated from Melk to Linz and then by boat to Ebensee; a forced march of 25km; Americans liberating the prisoners at Ebensee; working with the American Army; immigrating to the US and arriving in New York on March 17, 1949; working in the Bronx then Chicago; enlisting during the Korean War; being sent to Mannheim, Germany; meeting a woman in Czechoslovakia; working for a newspaper in New York; his view of Holocaust deniers; how he didn’t want to talk to his own children about the Holocaust until they were much older; his attempts to locate his niece Adela; his life in High Point, NC; and participating in the March of the Living.
    Interviewee
    Hank Brodt
    Interviewer
    Dr. Marcia Horn
    Date
    interview:  2006 October 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marcia Horn

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 DVD.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Brodt, Hank, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Dr. Marcia Horn of Ferrum College produced the oral testimonies during her 2006-2007 videotaping project in Southwest Virginia and Northern North Carolina. She donated copies of her interviews to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2015.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:34:35
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