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Oral history interview with Volter Simoni

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.217 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0217

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    Oral history interview with Volter Simoni

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Volter Simoni, born in Vienna, Austria in 1919, discusses activities in the youth section of the Social Democratic party; activities in the Zionist movement until 1938 when he fled Austria; rising antisemitism with the advent of Hitler in 1933; fleeing from Austria to Germany and then to Brussels, Belgium in 1938; his internment in a refugee camp in between Brussels and Antwerp, in Mechelen, Belgium, for fifteen months; learning agriculture in Mechelen camp; leaving Mechelen camp and working in agriculture in Bekkevoort, on the border with Holland where he worked on a private farm; how after the German entrance into Belgium he was returned to Mechelen, which had become a place for Jewish detainees, on July 28, 1942; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1942; working in a quarry in Goleszow; traveling by train to Sachsenhausen in April 1945; being brought to the Henkel factory; marching north to Schwerin, Germany; returning to Belgium; writing his memoir; his immigration to Brazil in 1946; and immigrating to Israel in 1967.
    Interviewee
    Volter Simoni
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Simoni, Volter, 1919-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Volter Simoni in Israel on August 25, 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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