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Oral history interview with Ya'akov Tzur

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.206 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0206

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    Oral history interview with Ya'akov Tzur

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ya'akov Tzur, born Kurt Cierer in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) in 1925, discusses the annexation of Austria in March 1938; the annexation of the Sudetenland; his mother's journey with Aliya Bet; his cancelled trip to go to England with a group of children in 1939; joining Aliyat Hanoar; enforcement of anti-Jewish laws; his father's work for a company called Monospol; his knowledge about the Warsaw uprising; being sent to Terezin in August 1943; being taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau; being sent to a camp in Heidelberg; being saved from a transport by Mengele; being taken to camp Schwarzheide; being sent to Sachsenhausen in February 1945; his work disabling unexploded bombs in Oranienberg, Germany; life in displaced persons camp in Hamburg; traveling to Prague, Budapest, and Italy; meeting the Jewish brigade, which took him to the displaced persons camp in Rome; traveling to the Capo di Leuca displaced persons camp; joining the Bricha organization; forging papers for aliya; time in Nonantola and Carrara, Italy; being taken to a camp in Famagusta, Cyprus; arrival and adjustment to life in Israel in 1946 in camp Atlit and Kibbutz Naan; and joining the Haganah and Palmach.
    Interviewee
    Ya'akov Tzur
    Date
    interview:  1994 April 21
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    3 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Tzur, Ya'akov, 1924-
    Meeting Name
    'Aliyat ha-no'ar.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ya'akov Tsur in Israel on April 21, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on March 1, 1995, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:31
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