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Oral history interview with Nathan Krieger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.58 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0058

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    Oral history interview with Nathan Krieger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Nathan Krieger, born in Wojnicz, Poland on February 21, 1917, describes never knowing his father, who left Poland for the United States in 1921; being one of six children and the only one of his siblings to survive the Holocaust; working as a tailor’s apprentice when he was twelve years old; getting married in the ghetto in 1943; being interned in Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945; being forced to do hard labor; being severally malnourished; being selected work in the camp kitchen, peeling potatoes; how a Jewish leader helped him acclimate to new foods, so that he would not get sick; working in the camp laundry; being sent on a Death March from January 18 to April 15 1945 from Poland through Germany into Czechoslovakia; reuniting with his wife, who had been in Auschwitz and other camps; living in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg, Germany; immigrating to the US in 1949; starting his own men’s clothing business in 1955; living in New York, NY initially; moving his coat factory to Georgia; experiencing antisemitism in Georgia; experiencing a nervous breakdown; raising a family in New York; his belief that the Holocaust could happen again; and his concern about the attitudes of Jewish people in their relations with others.
    Interviewee
    Nathan Krieger
    Date
    interview:  1989 June 25

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (90 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Krieger, Nathan, 1917-

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Mr. William B. Helmreich
    Provenance
    The interview with Nathan Kreiger was conducted for William B. Helmreich's book "Against all odds: Holocaust survivors and the successful lives they made in America." The interview was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on October 30, 1992.
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    2023-11-16 08:20:37
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