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Oral history interview with Louis Kreps Kay

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0045

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    Oral history interview with Louis Kreps Kay

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Louis Kreps Kay, born in 1925 in Wloszczowa, Poland, discusses the beginning of the war in 1939; being moved with his family into a ghetto; the deportation of his parents and most of his siblings to Treblinka, while Louis and two of his brothers were sent to Skarzysko; working in an ammunitions factory for two years until he was sent to Czestochowa and later Buchenwald; being sent to Dora-Nordhausen, where he was liberated April 11, 1945; immigrating to the United States many years after the war; and building a monument in 1969 in the United States to memorialize his family and his birth city.
    Interviewee
    Louis K. Kay
    Interviewer
    Arthur Kirsch

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes : analog.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kay, Louis Kreps.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Louis Kreps Kay. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:23:03
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