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Oral history interview with Menachem Ofen

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.114 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0114

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    Oral history interview with Menachem Ofen

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Menachem Ofen, born in Debica near Krakow, Poland, discusses being a member of Hashomer Hadati; organizing an underground Yeshiva in his attic in the Tarnow ghetto; being involved in religious and spiritual resistance until the summer of 1942; how at the end of 1942 all Jews went into the ghetto in the poor section of town; being sent to Czechowice to work in an airplane factory; work conditions, life in the work camp, and his state of mind; being sent to Flossenbürg, Muhlhausen, Sachsenhausen, Braunschweig, and Bergen Belsen; the liberation of Bergen Belsen; his immigration to Israel; and his thoughts about survivor syndrome.
    Interviewee
    Menachem Ofen
    Date
    interview:  1992 May 04
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ofen, Menachem.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Menachem Ofen in Israel on May 4, 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 08:15:02
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