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Oral history interview with Marek Herman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.259 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0259

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    Oral history interview with Marek Herman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marek Herman, born in L'viv, Ukraine in 1927, describes being the oldest of four children; his family's poverty; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; the Soviet occupation; the German invasion; ghettoization; he and his brother living as non-Jews on the Aryan side; smuggling food to his family; the deportation of his mother and sister; bringing food to his father at Janowska; he and his brother being denounced as Jews; escaping during his brother's interrogation; obtaining false papers from a Ukrainian friend; Italian soldiers befriending him; traveling with them when they left L'viv in 1943; living in a children's home in Udine, Italy; being adopted by an Italian soldier; traveling with him by train to Mestre, Italy; the soldier's arrest; escaping with another boy; traveling to Ghemme, Italy; living with his companion's adopted family; traveling to his adoptive family in Canischio, Italy; working on their farm; attending a boarding school in Cuorgnè, Italy; liberation by partisans in 1944; joining them as a translator; fighting in hit-and-run battles; recruitment by the OSS (Office of Strategic Services); serving throughout Italy in Giaveno, Turin, Condove, and elsewhere; being captured by the Germans and escaping; demobilization; returning to L'viv, via Melk, Austria and Kiev, Ukraine; moving with an aunt and uncle to Wrocław, Poland; moving to Rosenheim displaced persons camp; working at a Deror youth summer camp; assisting with illegal immigration to Palestine from Austria through Italy; attending a Haganah training course in Bari, Italy; his immigration to Israel via Naples, Italy; serving in the Palmah; his book about his experiences; and his contact with historians during visits to Italy.
    Interviewee
    Marek Herman
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 16
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Adoption--Italy. Antisemitism--Ukraine. Boarding schools--Italy--Cuorgnè. Escapes. Guerrillas--Italy. Hiding places--Ukraine. Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Identification cards--Forgeries--Ukraine. Jewish children--Italy--Udine. Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--L'viv. Jewish refugees--Germany. Jewish refugees--Italy. Jews, Ukrainian--Italy. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--L'viv. Passing (Identity) Prisoner-of-war escapes. Refugee camps--Germany--Rosenheim (Bavaria) Smuggling--Ukraine--L'viv. Soldiers--Italy. Translators. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Juvenile. Men--Personal narratives. Resistance groups (ushmm) Zionists -- Associations, institutions, etc.
    Personal Name
    Herman, Marek, 1927-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Marek Herman in Israel on November 16, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in May 31, 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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