Overview
- Interview Summary
- Hans Biglajzer, originally of the Bad Honnef am Rhein/Bonn area of Germany, describes pre-war antisemitism and the family's deportation to Poland because his father was Polish; living in the Łódź ghetto where his father died of tuberculosis; the deportation of his mother and brother to concentration camps where they perished; his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and later to Landsberg; his relocation to Dachau in the final months of the war; being on a death march before liberation by American forces on May 2,1945.
- Interviewee
- Hans Biglajzer
- Interviewer
- Ms. Deborah Halsten
- Date
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interview:
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Deborah Halsten
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 DVDs.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Men--Personal narratives.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Deborah Halsten donated the oral history interview with Hans Biglajzer to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 11, 2009. Ms. Halsten conducted the interview in January and February 2009.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:18:54
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