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Oral history interview with Solly Ganor

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.268 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0268

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    Oral history interview with Solly Ganor

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Solly Ganor, born on May 18, 1928 in a small town of Heydekrug (Šilutė, Lithuania), describes his early life, the family's move to Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania), and his encounter with the Japanese consul, Chiune Sugihara; his family’s attempt to flee Russia, but without success; returning to Kovno and ending up in a ghetto in Slobodka (Vilijampole), Lithuania; becoming involved with underground work; hiding books; working at the airport under harsh conditions; the relationship between the Judenrat and the chief rabbi; the Judenrat making of list of people to send to Riga, Latvia; the beginning of Jewish resistance in the ghetto; the relative quiet in the ghetto from 1942 to 1943; the ghetto orchestra; deportations to Estonia; his cousins joining Chaim Yellin’s partisans; the killings in the 9th Fort; his sister's release from the Nazis; a story about Joseph Kagan; being ordered to evacuate the ghetto in July 1944; being taken to Stutthof and later to an outer camp of Dachau, Camp 10 (Kaufering X in Utting am Ammersee, Germany); his father working in the concrete plant; witnessing the suicide of a Jew who pushed a cruel German into pouring concrete; lice in the camp; burying the dead; celebrating his father's birthday with a surprise party; being instructed to take inmates to Dachau in April 1945; evacuating from Dachau along with 8,000 other Jews on a death march; being liberated by Japanese American soldiers; translating for the American doctors who were treating survivors; being sent with his father to recuperate; going to Munich, Germany; working for the American army as a translator in the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC); working for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. (UNNRA); leaving Germany and boarding a ship in Marseilles, France; arriving in Haifa, Israel in June 1948; and his first years in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Solly Ganor
    Date
    interview:  1995 December 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Solly Ganor in Israel on December 14, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:15:52
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