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Oral history interview with Simon Taitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.139 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0139

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    Oral history interview with Simon Taitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Simon Taitz, born in Königsberg, Germany, describes having a successful watchmaking business in the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania; hiding with a Gentile family after the German invasion; being in a motorcycle club before the war began and how it was taken by the partisans; being forced to do labor; being mistreated by the Germans; being sent to the ghetto; working in the nearby airport; being sent one day to another work place and writing a song (he sings it during the interview); witnessing the reactions of the parents during and after the roundup of Jewish children; the separation of the men and women in a camp and writing a song about a woman who saw the men dancing and was punished (he sings it and the interviewee reads the translation); his song about the daily life in the camp (he sings it and the interviewee reads the translation); more details about life in the ghetto; writing a song about the choices people made during the war; the journey on cattle cars to Dachau; being sent originally to Stutthof; being transferred to Dachau, where he was separated from his mother and never saw her again; details on his childhood (losing his father when he was very young and having two siblings); helping to save other Jews in the camp by giving them jobs in his watchmaking repair shop in Kaufering; and more details on daily life in the camps.
    Interviewee
    Simon Taitz
    Date
    interview:  1983 April 12

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Music.
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Taitz, Simon, 1913-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors conducted the interview with Simon Taitz on April 12, 1983, in Washington, D.C., during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Conference. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. received the tapes of the interview in 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes by transfer in February 1995.
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