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Oral history interview with Jack Heisler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.65 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0065

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    Oral history interview with Jack Heisler

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jack Heisler, born in 1924 in Bilky, Czechoslovakia (now in Ukraine), discusses being one of nine children; the emigration of three of his siblings before war (they went to Buffalo, NY); the deaths of his siblings Bernard and Maria shortly after liberation; his brothers David and Edward surviving the war; the deaths of his parents; life in Bilky; the Hungarian takeover; Jewish men and boys being forced to do labor; the detainment of a 100 families in the synagogue; the release of his family; the town’s disbelief at the rumors of mass-execution; the deportation of his family from Bilky in the Spring of 1944; being in Beregszász (Berehove, Ukraine) for three weeks; being sent to Auschwitz; the selection process and being separated from his family members; being tattooed with the numbers 10122; seeing corpses stacked; the smell of the crematorium; the roll calls; working on a farm camp outside Birkenau run by Russian POWs; doing forced labor, picking cotton and feeding horses; the treatment from the guards; the German women who sometimes dropped off baskets of food; some Jews hanging themselves; experiencing frostbite and losing the tips of fingers and toes; staying in the hospital at the camp while the other prisoners were marched out; being liberated by Russian soldiers; getting sick when he over ate; finding his brother; walking to Krakow, Poland; being taken in by a Jewish family; walking towards Czechoslovakia; returning to Bilky; and immigrating to the US.
    Interviewee
    Jack Heisler
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1991 July 08

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Heisler, Jack.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Jack Heisler on July 8, 1991 with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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