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Oral history interview with Yosef Morgenshtern

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.108 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0108

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    Oral history interview with Yosef Morgenshtern

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    Interview Summary
    Yosef Morgenshtern, born on July 8, 1922 in Subotica, Serbia, describes his family and living in Sremska Mitrovica; the German arrival on April 22, 1941, prior to which his father was then arrested and taken to a camp near Osijek; being arrested with his brother by the Ustashi; the family being taken to Zagreb, Croatia and put into prison; how his family had provided housing to two Jews who fled Germany in the 1930s; being transferred to Gospic; being transported after 20 days to Jasenovac II and his work there; the atrocities at Jasenovac, where he was held for about two months; being sent to Stara Gradiska, where he and his brother were assigned to work at the 'economy,' farm work; witnessing the murder of his brother; his life after liberation, including spending three years with the partisans and having various jobs; and going to Israel in 1947.
    Interviewee
    Yosef Morgenshtern
    Date
    interview:  1992 September 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yosef Morgenshtern in Israel on September 10, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:00
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