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Oral history interview with Yehuda Mymon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.109 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0109

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    Oral history interview with Yehuda Mymon

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    Interview Summary
    Yehuda Mymon, born in 1924 in Kraków, Poland, describes his family; the Jewish community in Kraków; his desires to go to Palestine in 1938 when he was a young scout leader; his knowledge of what was happening in Europe but did not believe it would reach Poland; the beginning of the war and the closing of schools; the underground schools and joining the Akiba movement; the family’s move in fall 1940 out of the ghetto to the suburbs; passing as a non-Jewish Pole and working for the army in road repair; joining the partisans and the actions in which he participated; being arrested and imprisoned; being sent to Auschwitz III, Buna IG Farben factory, where he joined the underground organization; going to the Gleiwitz camp; escaping and being imprisoned by the Soviets; joining a kibbutz group in Bucharest, Romania; joining the 'Revenge' group (Nakam) headed by Abba Kovner, and assisting refugees on their way to Palestine; details about the group’s plans; his feelings of loss at liberation; immigrating to Israel; his return to Poland in 1963 as an Israeli diplomat; and his reunion with a Polish family that had hidden him.
    Interviewee
    Yehuda Mymon
    Date
    interview:  1992 March 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yehuda Mymon in Israel on March 30, 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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    2023-11-16 08:15:00
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