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Oral history interview with Herman Marczak

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0064

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    Oral history interview with Herman Marczak

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Herman Marczak, born on January 25, 1920 in Złoczew, Poland, his childhood in Zduńska Wola, Poland; the beginning of the war, at which time Herman and his family were forced into the Zduńska Wola ghetto; working and earning money at a shoe factory for a German boss; being sent with his family in 1942 to Chelmno; his transfer to the Łódż ghetto; being sent to various labor camps, including Skarżysko-Kammiena, where he worked manufacturing ammunition for the Germans; being liberated from a military base outside of Bergen-Belsen on April 25, 1945; staying in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; obtaining a letter from a doctor in the DP camp allowing him to move to Sweden, where he met his wife and had a daughter; and his family’s immigration to the United States in 1957.
    Interviewee
    Herman Marczak

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes : analog.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Marczak, Herman.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Herman Marczak. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:23:09
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