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Oral history interview with Israel Miller

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.254 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0254

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    Oral history interview with Israel Miller

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Israel Miller, born in January 1922 in Hanušovce nad Topl'ou, Slovakia, describes being one of six children; one brother's illness and death; attending a Jewish school, then yeshivas in Šurany and Galanta; Slovak independence; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor building roads; how the synagogue burned down in 1939 or 1940; escaping with a friend to Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1942; assistance from local Jews; visiting his brother in Košice, Slovakia; traveling to Sárospatak, then Budapest, Hungary; obtaining false papers; being arrested in Budapest and taken to jail, physically abused, and sent to a work camp in Zilina, Slovakia; his sister smuggling money to him in a toothpaste tube; being deported in September 1942 to Auschwitz; processing in Auschwitz and work life; slave labor unloading trains; receiving extra food from a SS guard; public hangings; obtaining a position at Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (German Equipment Factory) through a friend and working in an indoor plant that manufactured and fixed a variety of items; sharing extra food with prisoners in the hospital; praying with a group, exchanging bread for potatoes during Passover; a death march, then train transfer to Mauthausen in January 1945; being moved to a camp near Vienna, Austria, where they were finally liberated; traveling to Budapest, then home; reuniting with his sister; moving to Bratislava, Slovakia; his marriage in 1947; his illegal immigration to Palestine; serving in the military during the 1948 war; retaining his religious faith in Auschwitz; and his almost fifty grandchildren representing his victory over Hitler.
    Interviewee
    Israel Miller
    Date
    interview:  1995 April 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Miller, Israel, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Israel Miller in Israel on April 7, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:48
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