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Oral history interview with Itzchak Shverzentz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.150 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0150

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    Oral history interview with Itzchak Shverzentz

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    Interview Summary
    Itzhak Shverzentz, born in Berlin, Germany on May 30, 1915, describes his father and Jewish home life; attending school; being in Jewish boy-scouts (Kadimah); antisemitism during his childhood and youth; Enzo Sereni as youth leader; taking refuge in Amsterdam then returning to Germany; taking teachers seminar in Cologne and teaching in southern Germany; working in the Aliyat Hanoar school in Berlin and participation in the youth underground in Berlin; the Kulturbund; changing his name from Hans Yoachim to Itzchak; Kristallnacht and males being deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp; posing as an Aryan in September 1942; escaping Berlin through Schafhausen and arriving in Zurich, Switzerland in 1944 to a refugee camp, where there were also German army deserters; his release from the refugee camp; working with a Jewish orphan group from Bergen-Belsen, periodically returning to Germany in order to teach and talk with students about his experiences; and his reactions to neo-Nazism in Germany at present.
    Interviewee
    Itzchak Shverzentz
    Date
    interview:  1992 October 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Itzchak Shverzentz in Israel on October 9,1992, 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. inFebruary 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 08:15:14
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