Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with Kalman Arieli

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.307 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0307

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with Kalman Arieli

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Kalman Ariele (né Aharonowitch), born in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) in 1928, discusses his family and education; experiencing antisemitism; how life changed when the Russians came to Lithuania; his father being taken to a work camp and killed; Lithuanians robbing Jewish homes; moving to the Kovno ghetto with his mother; being sent to work on the construction of an airport; the orchestra in the ghetto; the Actions in the ghetto and murder of people at the Ninth Fort (Devintasis fortas); the social life in the ghetto; hiding during a Kinder Action; hangings in the ghetto and the killing of Russian POWs; the liquidation of the ghetto and his transport by train to Stutthof; his transfer to Landsberg; being taken, with 16 other boys, to Dachau where he stayed for seven months; his arrival and initiation at Birkenau; his job at Birkenau was to clean up the garbage; the illnesses in camp; ghetto songs; being marched then taken by train to Mauthausen; being marched to camp Gunskirchen; cannibalism; being sick and weak; being liberated by Americans and sent to a hospital in Udine, Italy then one in Milan, Italy; befriending an Italian priest and an Italian partisan named Joseppe Riegler, who later adopted him; attending a conservatory where he learned to play the accordion; immigrating with his adopted father to Israel in 1951; marrying and joining the Israeli Army, where he played in the army band; teaching and performing after the Army; getting married; adopting a girl after the war and having four grandchildren; and reuniting with a group of child survivors every year.
    Interviewee
    Kalman Arieli
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Arieli, Kalman, 1928-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Kalman Arieli in Israel on November 14, 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 08:16:06
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn503187

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us