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Oral history interview with Shalom Hertzberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.64 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0064

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    Oral history interview with Shalom Hertzberg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Shalom Hertzberg, born 1915 in Bedzin, Poland, discusses his prosperous Zionist family; his daily Talmud studies; being an active member of the Zionist youth movement, Noar Zioni; being recruited to the Polish Army in 1938; being imprisoned by Germans in Krakow, Poland; being helped by non-Jews to get a German identity and to escape; the first Aktion on August 12, 1942; being sent to the Blechhammer camp; the death march of January 1945; liberation April 27, 1945; aiding American intelligence to get information from SS prisoners; returning to a normal life; establishing a Massuah in Israel; and early attitudes about the Holocaust in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Shalom Hertzberg
    Date
    interview:  1993 May 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hertzberg, Shalom, 1915-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shalom Hertzberg in Israel on May 30, 1993, 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 08:14:45
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