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Oral history interview with Jacob Kerbel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.414 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0414

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    Oral history interview with Jacob Kerbel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Kerbel's childhood in Ostrowiec, Poland, the invasion by Nazi German troops, the traumatic murder of his father, and the family's forced move to the ghetto. Mr. Kerbel describes his separation from his family, all of whom perished, and his transport to Auschwitz. He describes his experiences in Auschwitz, the terrible conditions and the cruelties he witnessed. Mr. Kerbel discusses enduring a death march to Mauthausen concentration camp, then to Gusen concentration camp, the extreme hunger he experienced, and his liberation by American troops in May 1945. He describes his return to Poland to properly bury his father, his time in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg, Germany where he met and married his wife, his application for visas to both Israel and the United States, their successful emigration in 1949 to the United States, and their settling in Oakland, California.
    Interviewee
    Jacob Kerbel
    Date
    interview:  1989 February 19
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kerbel, Jacob.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Jacob Kerbel on February 19, 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:45:10
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