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Oral history interview with Chaim Hamer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.60 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0060

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    Oral history interview with Chaim Hamer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Chaim Hamer, born in 1924, in Dorna, South Bukovina, describes Jewish life in Dorna, including speaking Hebrew and being in youth movements; attending school and synagogues; antisemitism when Bukovina was taken by the Russians and retaken by the Romanians; his deportation to Mogilev (Mahiliou, Belarus) in 1941; joining a group of young Zionists in 1942; being ordered to go to Torchin to work in a coal mine; his return to Mogilev and his unsuccessful attempt to lead a group of orphans across the Dniester River; functions of the Judenrat in Mogilev and the Pechora camp; his enlistment with the Soviet Army, reaching Riga, Latvia and Smolensk, Russia; returning to Bucharest, Romania and working with youth groups assisting Jewish immigration to Palestine; and his immigration to Israel, meeting his wife, and life in the early stages of the State of Israel.
    Interviewee
    Chaim Hamer
    Date
    interview:  1992 July 03
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hamer, Chaim, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chaim Hamer in Israel on July 3, 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 February 1995.
    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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