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Oral history interview with Ernest Rosin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0033 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0383

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    Oral history interview with Ernest Rosin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ernest Rosin, born on March 20, 1913 in Znina, Slovakia, discusses growing up with six older siblings; his parents and their small shop in the village; his older brother’s immigration to the US; the tension between Germans, Slovakians, and Hungarians in his hometown; doing two years of military service which stopped him from immigrating to Palestine; taking training courses in Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia) to go to Palestine in 1939; his first encounters with antisemitism in 1942; going home to his family for Passover and being arrested by the police; being sent to Auschwitz in 1942 and then being moved to Birkenau two days later; witnessing a gassing in a farmhouse on the way to Auschwitz; working in the gravel pits at Birkenau; being a prisoner of higher rank and working for the SS; keeping notes on the number of deaths for the SS; rescuing his friend, Andre Mueller, and hiding him in Birkenau; his friends’ work at the camps (working in the crematorium); meeting and befriending Erich Kulka and Otto Kraus; being tortured by the Gestapo for helping two prisoners escape; his plan to escape Birkenau and flee to Russia; hiding in a hole in the gravel pits for three days with another prisoner and then escaping Birkenau in 1944; the train journey to Zakopane, Poland and walking to Slovakia; being arrested and questioned by the gendarmerie; bribing the police and being released; living in secret in Pressburg and meeting other escapees; moving house every few months to evade being arrested; his marriage in 1946; being a witness in the Auschwitz trials; living in Palestine and Prague from 1946 to 1949; moving back to Pressburg; the persecution of Jews in 1954; working for the Czechoslovakian television from 1960 to 1966; and his brother and sister-in-law’s visit and their reaction to what happened in Slovakia during the war.
    Interviewee
    Ernest Rosin
    Interviewer
    Ulrike Jureit
    Date
    interview:  1997 February 03

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    8 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Rosin, Ernest, 1913-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ulrike Jureit, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Ernest Rosin on February 3, 1997.
    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 08:02:30
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