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Oral history interview with Daniel Chanoch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.226 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0226

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    Oral history interview with Daniel Chanoch

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Daniel Chanoch, born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania in 1933, discusses his childhood and family; Kovno and the Jewish community; the split between the Orthodox Jewish community in Slabodka (Vilijampole) and the others in the new town; the German entry and Russian retreat; life in the Kovno ghetto; his mother, her strength and how she influenced his life; hiding during actions within the ghetto; the lists of the Judenrat and how to avoid being listed; youth movement in the ghetto and the underground to which his brother belonged; his family being deported and his mother and sister being dropped off at Stutthof, while he and his father and brother went to camp Landsberg; a German officer taking him as a servant and working in the SS kitchen; being taken with the other children in trucks to Dachau; showers and decontamination and treatment; being taken by train to Birkenau; being taken to camp A and listening to the stories from Russian POWs; the selections; being taken to camp B and his work unloading carriages; life in the camp towards the end; being marched to a train transport in January 1945; arriving in Mauthausen and going to Zeltenlager; being marched to Sankt Florian, Austria in April 1945 and then to camp Gunskirchen; being taken to a camp in Hirshing, Austria; meeting up with the Jewish brigade; traveling with the brigade to Treviso, Italy, to Mestra, Italy; experiences in transit camps in Modena and Bologna, Italy, a sanitarium near Stresa, Italy, and a hospital in Milan, Italy; immigrating to Israel in 1946; and psychological effects from his Holocaust experiences.
    Interviewee
    Daniel Chanoch
    Date
    interview:  1995 October 27
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    9 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 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
    Chanoch, Daniel, 1933-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Daniel Chanoch 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:38
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