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Oral history interview with Simon Cymerath

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0017

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    Oral history interview with Simon Cymerath

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Simon Cymerath describes growing up in a close-knit family in Starowice, Poland; his siblings; his education; experiencing antisemitism as a child; religious observance in his family; the German occupation of Poland; having to register as Jews and wear armbands; being moved with his family into a ghetto; doing forced labor at an ammunition factory; being taken to a factory (Lipowa 7) near Lublin, Poland in 1940; life in the labor camp; an attempted escape from the labor camp; the deportation of his family to Treblinka, where his parents and youngest brother perished; being separated from his two other brothers and sent to Auschwitz; life and inmate attitudes in the camp; working as a painter on a Monowitz (Buna) work detail; trading stolen paint for food; the evacuation of the camp and being sent on a death march with other prisoners; being liberated by American troops; working for several years with the American Army; reuniting with his only surviving brother; immigrating to the United States in 1950; and his thoughts on his survival and sharing his story.
    Interviewee
    Simon Cymerath
    Interviewer
    Sidney M. Bolkosky
    Date
    interview:  1982 June 08
    Geography
    creation: Oak Park (Mich.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes : analog.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Cymerath, Simon.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Simon Cymerath. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Archives Branch received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:22:54
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