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Oral history interview with Sholom Rosenheck

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.93 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0529

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    Oral history interview with Sholom Rosenheck

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    Interview Summary
    Sholom Rosenheck, born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), describes his pre-war life in Czechoslovakia; the Ukrainian, Hungarian, and German occupation of Czechoslovakia; his family’s move to Kwassie near the Carpathian Mountains; his experiences with antisemitism in school; his father’s lumber business; his father’s time in forced labor; experiencing German persecution and running away from the shots of soldiers; his time in the Malteszalka ghetto during the winter of 1944; his transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; his time in Auschwitz; the medical experiments conducted by Dr. Mengele; his transfer to Trzebinia where he worked in an oil refinery; his experiences on a death march towards Gliwice; his transfer to Sachsenhausen and then Bergen-Belsen; his labor in Augsburg working on airplanes; his march to Dachau; his survival and liberation by American soldiers; his trip to Israel after the war; his immigration to the United States in 1950; his marriage; and why he gave his testimony.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Sholom Rosenheck
    Interviewer
    Miss Julie Oswald
    Date
    interview:  2009 May 20

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Rosenheck, Sholom, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Sholom (Sol) Rosenheck on May 20, 2009. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2009.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:24
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