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Oral history interview with Shmuel Tzuk

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.225 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0225

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    Oral history interview with Shmuel Tzuk

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Shmuel Tzuk (né Shmuel Zuckerbrot), born on May 14, 1928, in Kraków, Poland, discusses his childhood years; the rabbi from Bels who told his community not to leave; experiencing antisemitism from Polish children; the beginning of the war and the bombardment of the city; escaping to a village near Kraków; working in an air field at the end of 1940; entering the Kraków ghetto in the summer of 1942; friends, the newspaper, and life in the ghetto; hiding during an 'Action'; knowledge of death transports at the end of 1942; being sent to Płaszów in December 1942 and the cruelty of Goeth; being taken in trucks to a camp in Chebinya (Trzebinia), Poland, in March 1943; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in November 1943; the overcrowding, abuse from Kapos, and forced singing in Birkenau; human relations in the camp and suicides; being taken to Fuerstengrube where he worked in coal mines; being sick in the hospital; Polish partisans who were caught building escape route and hanged; a death march; train ride to camp Dora Nordhausen during which the majority of prisoners died; conditions at the camp and work on the underground missile factory; the camp population and being with the children group; a second death march and train ride to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British on April 15, 1945; the revenge taken by inmates on Kapos; going to the forest and joining a group of Poles; life in Celle, Germany; traveling back to Poland; reuniting with his parents and sister; life in the displaced persons camp Landsberg and the ORT school; working as a driver in the refugee camp; his immigration to Israel in 1948; Israeli attitudes towards survivors; and visiting Poland in 1989 and telling his children his story.
    Interviewee
    Shmuel Tzuk
    Date
    interview:  1995 October 27
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shmuel Tzuk in Israel on October 27, 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 08:15:38
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