Overview
- Description
- The papers include s testimony, 9 pages, by Benjamin Zachariah Steiner (born Vilmos Schneider, now also known as William Schneider), originally of Budapest, Hungary. In his testimony, he describes his family history, being sent to a Catholic boarding school in 1943 as a failed attempt to avoid deportation, his deportation to Auschwitz at age 8 1/2, and memories of being experimented upon. After the war, he reunited with his father and mother, who had survived in a forced labor battalion and as a medical doctor on the eastern front, respectively. Mr. Steiner escaped Hungary after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and immigrated to New Zealand. Also included is a family tree, a photograph, and a letter testifying that Mr. Steiner remembers SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Hoecker on the ramp at Auschwitz.
- Date
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publication/distribution:
2011
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Benjamin Steiner
- Collection Creator
- Benjamin Z. Steiner
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Testimonies.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Unarranged.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
- Copyright Holder
- Mr. Benjamin Z. Steiner
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Benjamin Zachariah Steiner donated this testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2025-03-31 15:54:56
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn44024
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- Terms of Use
- This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.
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