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Oral history interview with Ya'akov Biskovitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.16 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0016

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    Oral history interview with Ya'akov Biskovitz

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    Interview Summary
    Ya’akov Biskovitz, born in 1926, discusses his childhood in Hubicze, Poland; Polish antisemitism; German forces arriving in Hubicze; being deported to Sobibor in May 1924; his work in the Bahnhof commando; escaping Sobibor; meeting Russian partisans; returning to Hubicze in 1943; volunteering for the Polish Army; detonating mines; being jailed in Warsaw, Poland for desertion; escaping to Lublin, Poland; joining a Revisionist party and going to Austria; working in a transit camp for children near Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland; immigrating illegally to Palestine and escorting 600 children with him; being caught by the British and interned on Cyprus; living conditions in the camp; entering Israel in 1949; his life in Israel; and witnessing war trials in Germany and giving evidence in the Adolf Eichmann trial.
    Interviewee
    Ya'akov Biskovitz
    Date
    interview:  1992 March 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    8 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Biskovitz in Israel on March 20, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:14:30
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