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Oral history interview with Emery Klein and Bernard Klein

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0051

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    Oral history interview with Emery Klein and Bernard Klein

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    Interview Summary
    The Klein brothers, Bernard and Emery, discuss growing up in Humenné, Slovakia; their immediate family, which included their parents and a younger sister; the German occupation of the area in 1939; the deportation of the Jews in 1941; being saved from deportation until 1944 because their father was an important farming advisor; the deportation of the family to Auschwitz without Bernard, who had become separated; the immediate gassing of Mrs. Klein and her daughter upon their arrival at the camp; Bernard’s reunion with his brother and father at Auschwitz a month later; the transport of the three to Gleiwitz, where Emery and his father worked in a factory while Bernard worked in the camp kitchen; the evacuation of the camp in 1945 as the Russian army advanced into the area; being relocated to camp Blechhammer; the German guards fleeing the camp, abandoning the prisoners; walking with several others a few days later to Humenné; and the family’s move to Israel, Montreal, and eventually to Detroit.
    Interviewee
    Emery Klein
    Bernard Klein

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes : analog.

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    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Emery and Bernard Klein. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Archives Branch received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:23:05
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