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Oral history interview with Mordechai Livni

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.207 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0207

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    Oral history interview with Mordechai Livni

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mordechai Livni, born on February 18, 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), discusses antisemitism in Czechoslovakia; his older brother's travels to Palestine with the Agudath Israel group; the establishment of anti-Jewish laws; life and work in Terezin in July 1943; participation in the beautification project in Terezin before the Red Cross visit; being active with social work and assistance with the elderly in Terezin; conditions in Auschwitz; travel to Kaufering camp number four; creating a model of Kaufering's sleeping quarters, now kept at Yad Vashem; being marched to Dachau; being liberated by the Americans; traveling to Pilsen, Czech Republic; being guided by American transports manned by Czech officers; returning to Prague; his discovery that he was the only survivor from his family left in Europe; his trip to Slovakia, where he worked as a counselor to a group planning to immigrate to Israel; and immigrating with his wife and son to Israel in May 1949.
    Interviewee
    Mordechai Livni
    Date
    interview:  1995 June 04
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Livni, Mordechai, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Mordechai Livni in Israel on June 4, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on January 1, 1996, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:31
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