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Oral history interview with Chaim Drori

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.336 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0336

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    Oral history interview with Chaim Drori

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Chaim Drori, born near Neresnica, Czechoslovakia in 1930, describes his observant family; his Zionist father, who was also a Communist; having three siblings and how only he and his sister Naomi survived the war; attending Ukrainian school and experiencing antisemitism; the anti-Jewish laws in his town; the difficulty of obtaining goods after the war began; being deported in 1944 to the ghetto in Mátészalka, Hungary; being deported to Birkenau; living in Camp Z, Block 21; witnessing suicides; being sent to Buchenwald; working in a camp for Brabag near the Zeiss factory; the Allied air raids and a successful bombing in August 1944; becoming ill and being sent to the ‘sick camp’ in Buchenwald; the evacuation of the camp and being hidden by the doctors with other sick children in the prostitute block of the camp; being liberated two weeks later and the role of Buchenwald’s underground resistance in liberation; searching for surviving relatives after the war; joining the Zionist youth movement Dror-Hechalutz and preparing to make Aliyah to Palestine; being intercepted during their journey by the British Navy and sent to Cyprus; living in a detention camp in Cyprus from February to September 1947; obtaining an official certificate to go to Palestine; arriving in Palestine and being sent to a processing camp in Atlit; living in Hadera and Hahotrim; studying agriculture and receiving a position in the kibbutz; being sent to Kenya and Zaire as an agricultural advisor; and his large family of both adopted and biological children.
    Interviewee
    Chaim Drori
    Date
    interview:  1998 February 05
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    10 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 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
    Drori, Chaim.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Chaim Drori in Israel on February 5, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, 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 08:16:16
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