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Oral history interview with Bernard Zelkowitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.593 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0593

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    Oral history interview with Bernard Zelkowitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Bernard Zelkowitz (né Zelkovic), born July 6, 1925 in Výškovo nad Tisou, Czechoslovakia (now Vyshkove, Ukraine), discusses his childhood in Czechoslovakia; his family life; his education; the changes he experienced after the Hungarian occupation began in 1938; being deported with his family to a ghetto and then to Auschwitz; the selection process; being separated from his family; his experiences in Auschwitz; being transferred to Bunzlau; the conditions in the camp and the work he performed; being transferred by train to Bergen-Belsen; being liberated from Bergen-Belsen by the British Army; the assistance he received from different organizations; his reunion with his brother and their return to Czechoslovakia; his service with the Czech Army; his opportunity to enter combat in the 1948 war in Israel and his military service there; his marriage and family; his immigration to the United States in 1959; and his life with his family in the US.
    Interviewee
    Bernard Zelkowitz
    Interviewer
    Peggy Coster
    Date
    interview:  1989 February 28
    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
    Zelkowitz, Bernard.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Bernard Zelkowitz on February 28, 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 2003.
    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 08:45:54
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