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Oral history interview with Moshe Shoham

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.314 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0314

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    Oral history interview with Moshe Shoham

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Moshe Shoham, a twin, born in 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, recounts his mother's dental practice; his family's affluence; attending a Hebrew school; summering in Kulautuva; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation; compulsory membership in Komsomol; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; round-up of his father, uncle, and grandmother (they never saw them again); working as a carpenter and handyman; his mother hiding him and his twin brother during round-ups; his and his mother's assignments to factory slave labor; his mother treating patients; their deportation to Stutthof, where the women left the train, including his mother; continuing to Dachau with his twin, uncle, and cousin; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau ten days later; slave labor collecting corpses; a death march to Althammer; separation from his twin en route to Mauthausen (he never saw him again); assignment to the tent barrack; observing cannibalism; transfer to Gunskirchen; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Wels; traveling with the Jewish brigade to Santa Maria di Leuca, then Naples; living in a Deror group; legal immigration to Palestine in 1945; military enlistment in 1948; his twenty-eight-year career as an army engineer; and reuniting with his mother when she immigrated to Israel in 1956. (He reads from a book in which the author describes meeting Mr. Shoham in Italy.)
    Interviewee
    Moshe Shoham
    Date
    interview:  1996 December 05
    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
    Shoham, Moshe.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Moshe Shoham in Israel on December 5, 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 08:16:08
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