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Oral history interview with William Zucker

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.67 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0067

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    Oral history interview with William Zucker

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    William (“Willy”) Zucker, born August 22, 1927 in Wlodzimierz, Poland (now Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi, Ukraine), discusses being reluctant to describe his family’s loss and hardships during the Holocaust; growing up on farm; the beginning of the war in 1939; being on the Russian side of Poland; the German occupation in 1941; the anti-Jewish measures; being sent with his family to the ghetto; sneaking out of the ghetto for food and being beaten because of it; doing forced labor in construction for the Germans; creating an attic space for hiding; drinking rain water to survive; returning to ghetto to find only tailors and watchmakers remaining; the shooting of his family members; bartering his family’s belongings to a Pole to hide in his cow stable for approximately seven months; the Nazis’ treatment of non-Jewish Ukrainians and Poles; the survival of his brother because of his dentistry skills; being found by a Russian partisan and accused of being German spy at first; being taken in by the Partisans; assisting the Russian partisans in breaking through a German barricade; getting lost in the woods; liberation; returning to Wlodzimierz and searching for his family; immigrating to the United States in 1949 and settling in Buffalo, NY; and his reflections on the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    William Zucker
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 June 18

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zucker, William.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with William Zucker on June 18, 1990 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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