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Oral history interview with Kalman Wexler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.169 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0169

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    Oral history interview with Kalman Wexler

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    Interview Summary
    Kalman Wexler, born in January 1920 in Łódź, Poland, discusses his family life; being involved with the Bund movement; pre-war antisemitism; walking to Warsaw, Poland, when the war began and returning to Łódź; the creation of the Łódź ghetto its leadership; hidden radios in the ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto; being sent to Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen; being liberated by the Russians; returning to Łódź; and leaving for Israel in 1948.
    Interviewee
    Kalman Wexler
    Date
    interview:  1993 July 21
    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 Kalman Wexler in Israel on July 21, 1993, 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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