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Oral history interview with Nathan Moncharsh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.478 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0478

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    Oral history interview with Nathan Moncharsh

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    Interview Summary
    The interviews describe Mr. Moncharsh's childhood in Chmielnik and Łódź, Poland; his experiences in Łódź ghetto beginning in December 1939; and the ways he and his family survived there. He describes many of the deportations, including liquidation of hospitals; the work he performed as a bricklayer building factories; the rations; observations of Chaim Rumkowski; and the continual influx of Jews from the west beginning in 1940. He discusses the deaths of family members from illness and starvation, his deportation on the final train from Łódź to Auschwitz in September 1944, and the transportation in cattle cars. He describes his time in Auschwitz, from the initial selection performed by Josef Mengele to the work he performed as a bricklayer as well as his responsibility for the soup pots. Mr. Moncharsh describes the changes in the camp that began in November 1944, the bombings, and the death march to Flossenbürg in February 1945. He describes a subsequent death march to Dachau, liberation by the Americans in April 1945, and his health problems and malnourishment after liberation. He discusses his immigration to the United States in 1949 and his life in San Francisco after the war.
    Interviewee
    Nathan Moncharsh
    Date
    interview:  1991 March 21
    interview:  1991 April 25
    interview:  1991 May 14
    interview:  1991 July 11
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Nathan Moncharsh on March 21, 1991, April 25, 1991, May 14, 1991, and July 11, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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 08:45:24
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