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Oral history interview with Jack Gelb

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.685 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0685

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    Oral history interview with Jack Gelb

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jack Gelb discusses his childhood in Łódź, Poland; his family’s resettlement in 1939 and their return to Łódź in 1940; his family’s forced moved to the Łódź ghetto; his father’s arrest, torture and death; life in the Łódź ghetto, including hunger, disease and transports; his family’s deportation from Łódź in 1942 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where his mother and sister perished; his experiences in Auschwitz; being on a death march; being in Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme; his voyage on the Cap Arcona, a ship that was bombed by Allied troops; being rescued; his time in several displaced persons camps; his immigration to the United States; his stay at Homewood Terrace, a Jewish orphanage in San Francisco; his marriage; his United States Army service; his work and family life.
    Interviewee
    Jack Gelb
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1996 April 25
    interview:  1996 May 20
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gelb, Jack.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Jack Gelb on April 25, 1996 and May 20, 1996. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in July 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 08:46:23
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