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Oral history interview with Shlomo Levin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.305 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0305

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    Oral history interview with Shlomo Levin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Shlomo Levin, born in the early 1930s in Kovno, Poland (Kaunas, Lithuania), describes his well-educated parents; being in a Betar youth group; the Jewish observances in his family’s home; the Russians occupying Kovno; the Polish refugees arriving; changes in education; the German invasion; killings in the street at the Seventh Fort; moving into the ghetto in Slobodka; his father’s death; the several roundups of Jews who were then killed at the Ninth Fort (Devintasis fortas); learning to be a carpenter in 1942 in a workshop outside the ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1943 and his family there coming to Kovno to live with them; witnessing a hanging in the ghetto; the ghetto being transformed into a work camp in 1943; the liquidation of the ghetto in April of 1944; being sent to the Kaufering train station, then marching to Landsberg; being sent to Dachau a few days later with the other children; the transport to Auschwitz and arriving on July 31, 1944; working as a carpenter in Auschwitz; some children contracting scarlet fever; the Rosh Hoshanah selection carried out by Dr. Mengele when 60 to 75 children were murdered; the daily schedule; being transferred to D lager; his friendships with the Polish Jewish children; his different jobs in the camp; singing and humming in the camp; being sent on a death march; a bombing while they were on the train; arriving in Mauthausen and the terrible living conditions; cannibalism; going to Gunskirchen; liberation day and the aftermath; meeting an Israeli officer with the Jewish Brigade; going to Munich, Germany; being hospitalized until February; immigrating to Israel; dedicating his life to service in the Palmach, then in the tank corps, and finally the Israeli army; and getting married in 1957.
    Interviewee
    Shlomo Levin
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Cannibalism. Carpenters. Child concentration camp inmates. Forced labor. Great Action, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941. Hanging--Lithuania--Kaunas. Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish children--Crimes against--Poland. Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Kaunas. Jewish refugees--Poland. Jewish youth--Lithuania--Societies and clubs. Jews--Education--Lithuania. Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas. Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Kaunas. Mass murder--Lithuania--Kaunas. Massacres--Lithuania--Kaunas. Scarlatina. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Lithuania. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Lithuania. World War, 1939-1945--Medical care. World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music. Men--Personal narratives. Resistance groups (ushmm)
    Personal Name
    Levin, Shlomo.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Shlomo Levin in Israel on November 7, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:16:05
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