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Presentation by Sigmund Boraks and Martin Wasserman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.17.5 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0005

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    Presentation by Sigmund Boraks and Martin Wasserman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sigmund Boraks, born July 18, 1925 in Wielun, Poland, discusses his experience during Germany’s invasion of Poland; his relocation to the Cracow ghetto; his time in the Czestochowa ghetto, from which his parents and sister were shipped off to the Treblinka death camp; his experience at Blizyn labor camp from 1942 to early 1942 when he was transferred to Auschwitz; being evacuated from Auschwitz as the Russian Army advanced; the forced march to Oraniensburg, Sachsenhausen, and Kaufering until his arrival at Dachau concentration camp; and his liberation by American forces.
    Martin Wasserman, born June 25, 1925 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his time from 1941 to 1942 in the Warsaw ghetto; working in a gun manufacturing company in Radom, Poland; arriving in Auschwitz and being selected to work in Vahinger, Germany (possibly Vaihingen, Germany); working in a cement factory producing bunkers; being transferred to Dachau, Germany; and being liberated by the United States Seventh Army on April 29, 1945.
    Interviewee
    Sigmund Boraks
    Date
    interview:  1999 April 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Naval Oceanographic Office and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Stennis Space Center

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Lectures.
    Extent
    1 digital files : MPEG-2.

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    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Naval Oceanographic Office
    Provenance
    The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Stennis Space Center, donated the recording with Sigmund Boraks and Martin Wasserman to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in March 2012. NAVO produced the recording during its annual Holocaust Days of Remembrance ceremony in April 1999.
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