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Oral history interview with David Davis

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.030.0347

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    Oral history interview with David Davis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    David Davis (né Davidovicz), born on June 7, 1914 in Sosnowiec, Poland, describes growing up in a community with mixed religions; going to a public school and having to deal with antisemitism; participating in Zionist organizations in his youth; the German invasion of his town on September 5, 1939; his family's decision to pretend to be Gentiles and living in the Gentile area of town for two years until a neighbor reported them; being deported to Markstadt, Germany in 1943 and helping to build the Fuenfteichen concentration camp; traveling back and forth between Fuenfteichen (Miloszyce) and Wrocław, Poland; marching to Gross-Rosen in 1944 and then to Buchenwald, where he spent four months; going to Theresienstadt, where he stayed for three and a half months until he was liberated; meeting his future wife after the war; going to the Landsberg and Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps; and immigrating to the United States.
    Interviewee
    David Davis
    Interviewer
    Randy M. Goldman
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Davis, David, 1914-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Randy M. Goldman, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with David Davis on August 2, 1995.
    Funding Note
    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 08:02:14
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