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Oral history interview with Daniel Hassan

Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.99.1 | RG Number: RG-50.717.0001

Daniel Hassan, originally of Salonika (Thessalonikē), Greece, describes his experiences in the Salonika ghetto and in the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landsberg-Kaufering, and Allach; being liberated from Allach when he was 20 years old; forced labor and life in the camps; the treatment of Jews in Greece during the occupation; and his estimate that he lost over 130 members of his immediate family in the Holocaust.

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Interviewee: Daniel Hassan
Interviewer: Mr. Jeffrey Hassan
Date: undated:
Language: English
Extent: 1 digital file.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Charles Hassan

Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Topical Term: Concentration camp inmates.
Concentration camp tattoos.
Forced labor.
Holocaust survivors.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece--Personal narratives.
Jewish families--Greece--Thessalonikē.
Jewish ghettos--Greece--Thessalonikē.
Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē.
Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Greece.
Jews--Persecutions--Greece.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Greece.
Men--Personal narratives.
Geographic Name: Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany)
Greece--History--Occupation, 1941-1944.
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Personal Name: Hassan, Daniel.
Corporate Name: Allach (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Kaufering (Concentration camp)
Landsberg (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Charles Hassan donated the oral history interview with Daniel Hassan to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2013.
Copyright Holder: Mr. Charles Hassan
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-05-27 12:51:03
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