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Oral history interview with Avraham Benesh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.227 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0227

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    Oral history interview with Avraham Benesh

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    Interview Summary
    Avraham Benesh (né Adolph Benesh), born on November 17, 1906 in Moravia, Czech Republic, discusses his childhood years and family life; his move to Brno, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), to attend law school; activities with the Zionist organization in Brno; enlisting in the army and going to officer school near Terezin; opening an independent bureau in Brno; his family life; the outbreak of WWI in 1914 when he was 8 years old and songs of that time; going to Prague, Czech Republic in 1939 and working with Jacob Edelstein; life in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto; his work and social and cultural life in Terezin; preparations for the Red Cross visit in spring 1944; transport to Auschwitz; being taken in a cattle train to Dachau and Kaufering IV; the camp and work in the forest, and the cement works from October to April; a typhoid outbreak and other diseases in the camp; social relations in the camp and how he kept his spirits up; a four day death march to camp Allach; liberation by Americans; traveling to Prague to reunite with his mother and brother; involvement with Zionist activities and becoming director of the "JOINT" (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, JDC) in Prague; immigration to Israel; and Israeli society's treatment of Holocaust survivors.
    Interviewee
    Avraham Benesh
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Avraham Benesh in Israel on November 2, 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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