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Oral history interview with Yitzhak Dante

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.232 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0232

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    Oral history interview with Yitzhak Dante

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Yitzhak Dante (known as Dente Pampiri), born in Corfu, Greece in 1929, discusses the Jewish community that lived in the Hebreica area; the antisemitism he experienced as a child; the Jewish cemetery, life in the ghetto, and the history of Jews in Corfu; the Italian occupation; bombardments by Italians and then by Germans; Black Saturday, an order for all Jews to assemble; being taken by boat to Piraeus, Greece, and then to Athens, Greece; being taken by train to Bulgaria, then Hungary, and arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau; the layout of the camp; suicides in the camp; sexual assaults by Kapos; being sent to camp Fuerstengrube; being taken by train and marched to camp Dora; being sent by train to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British; returning to Corfu, Greece, with help from the Red Cross; and immigration to Israel.
    Interviewee
    Yitzhak Dante
    Date
    interview:  1995 April 16
    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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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dante, Yitzhak, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yitzhak Dante in Israel on April 16, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 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 08:15:40
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