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Oral history interview with Nachim Gershkovich Sorkin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.26 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0026

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    Oral history interview with Nachim Gershkovich Sorkin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Nachim Gershkovich Sorkin, born in Mogilev, Belarus in1923, describes growing up in Mogilev with no antisemitism during his youth; hearing rumors and reports of war after 1939; the persecution and imprisonment of Jews; the Germans selecting specialist, such as tailors, drivers, and shoemakers, and sending them to camps; being sent to a camp with his brother; never seeing his father, mother, or older sister again; working in a smith shop for two years from September 1941 to September 1943; the food and the routine in the work camp; the disbandment of the camp in September 1943; how only about 120 of the original 1,000 or so persons in the camp survived; being sent to Minsk for about 10 days; being taken to Lublin, Poland then to Budin with other metal workers; being separated from his brother; his work with the airplane company, Heinkel; being taken in August 1944 to Velichka (Wieliczka), where he worked in salt mines; being taken with other prisoners to a camp in Flossenbürg, where they remained a few weeks; being sent to Leitmeritz, where he worked in a metal shop; being sent to Dachau for about a week, sorting shoes, eyeglasses, umbrellas, etc.; going to Augsburg and Leonberg near Stuttgart, which was frequently bombed by Allied planes; making airplane wings in Leonberg; the bombing of camp by Allied planes and the prisoners' reactions; being transferred to Landau, where he worked on an airfield for a month; being marched to various places over a period of three to four days; being told they were free; going to the Soviet zone, where he was interrogated and treated as a possible spy; and going into the army after being cleared.
    Interviewee
    Nachim G. Sorkin
    Date
    interview:  1995 August 08
    Credit Line
    Interviews conducted in association with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and with the participation of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot in Israel.

    Physical Details

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

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    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak, project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Nachim Sorkin on August 8, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in September 1995.
    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 08:28:24
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