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Oral history interview with Yehoshua Shachar

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.135 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0135

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    Oral history interview with Yehoshua Shachar

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Yehoshua Shachar, born in 1925 in Debrecen, Hungary, describes his orthodox family; community life and incidents of antisemitism; the Germans entering Hungary in March 1944; the increasing restrictions imposed on the Jewish community; how his mother and her three sons were forced to pack and were pushed with others onto crowded trains; going to Vienna, Austria, where he worked in a school and in farms; being forced to march with thousands to Mauthausen; conditions in the camp; Kapos; being sent on a truck to Gunskirchen; liberation by Americans; escaping the camp when Russians took over and he returned to Vienna to contact the JOINT; finding his family in Debrecen on August 20, 1945; his immigration to Palestine; and his postwar life and family in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Yehoshua Shachar
    Date
    interview:  1991 May
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    5 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shachar, Yehoshua, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Yehoshua Shachar in Israel in May 1991, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 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 08:15:09
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