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Oral history interview with Ben-Tzion Dagan

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.233 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0233

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    Oral history interview with Ben-Tzion Dagan

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ben-Tzion Dagan, born in 1927 in Lakhva in western Belarus, discusses his family life; belonging to the Shomer Haleumi movement (part of Hashomer Hatzair); antisemitism he experienced; being sent to build an air strip in Kobryn, near Brisk, just before the war began; the Germans arriving; the men of Lakhva being forced to work; the creation of the ghetto; doing blacksmith work on the railroads and repairing bridges destroyed by the withdrawal of the Russians; working 20km outside the city on September 2, 1942; details about the uprising in the Lakhva ghetto and the loss most of his family; witnessing many suicides; going to Shlakhta, where a Pole unsuccessfully tried to capture him; finding partisans but not being accepted because of his youth; wandering with a friend and passing into Poland; joining partisans in 1943; life with the partisans; antisemitism among the partisans; going to Bialystok and stopping in Lakhva on the way; being mobilized into the Red Army in 1944 and serving for seven years; being sent to a forced labor camp in 1950; immigrating to Israel in 1959; and meeting his brother in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Ben-Tzion Dagan
    Date
    interview:  1995 April 06
    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
    Dagan, Ben-Tsiyon, 1927-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Dagan Ben-Zion in Israel on April 6, 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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