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Oral history interview with Simon Srebnik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.134 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0134

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    Oral history interview with Simon Srebnik

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    Interview Summary
    Simon Srebnik (also spelled Shimeon Srebnick), born in 1930 in Łódź, Poland, describes the Germans entering Łódź, Poland in 1939 and moving the Jews to a ghetto; life in the ghetto; being caught and sent on a truck to Chelmno, where he was taken to the forest to build the crematorium; the brutal camp commanders; being among five prisoners who were told to lie down at which point he was shot and pretended to be dead; how a group of the craftsmen saw what was happening, took one of the guards prisoner, took his gun, and started shooting Germans; escaping from Chelmno and hiding in a peasant's house; being one of the two survivors of Chelmno and the psychological effect of his experience; and giving evidence at various war crime trials in Israel and Germany.
    Interviewee
    Shimeon Srabnick
    Date
    interview:  1991 June 07
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Srebnik, Simon.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Simon Srebnik in Israel on June 7, 1991, 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 08:15:08
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