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Oral history interview with Shalom Kremarski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.366 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0366

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    Oral history interview with Shalom Kremarski

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Shalom Kremarski, born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, describes being one of four children; his father passing away before the war began; anti-Jewish edicts and attacks against Jews; life in the Łódź Ghetto; working in Rumkowski’s workshops; the murder of his mother and his brother; life in the Marysin orphanage; the evacuation of the orphanage and staying behind to continue working his old job; being sent to Birkenau; having his arm tattooed; being transferred to Auschwitz; being taught to build and building barracks and factories; attempting to escape from Auschwitz, but being captured and taken to Sachsenhausen, where he took care of horses; being taken on a death march to Mauthausen; returning to Sachsenhausen; being sent to Lieberose (a subcamp of Sachsenhausen); being taken on a death march to Gunskirchen, where the prisoners were forced to lie in the mud and snow for three months; being liberated; being taken to an empty camp in Wels, Austria; members of the Jewish Brigade convincing the survivors to immigrate to Israel; being moved to Bologna, Italy, where they stayed for a year; preparing for the voyage to Israel and her group going to Israel in 1946; being stopped by the British; and going to Kibbutz Poriya and then Kibbutz Alonim.
    Interviewee
    Shalom Kremarski
    Date
    interview:  2000 March 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    4 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
    Kremarski, Shalom, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Shalom Kremarski on March 2, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on August 31, 2001.
    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 08:16:26
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