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Oral history interview with Saul Golan

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.688 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0688

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    Oral history interview with Saul Golan

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Saul Golan discusses his childhood in Radom, Poland; his education in public and Jewish schools; his memories of anti-Semitism; his relationship with his stepfather, whose intellectual and political interests he admired; the invasion of Poland by Nazi forces in September 1939; being conscripted into forced labor; his removal to a restricted ghetto; relates his memories of selections and executions starting in August 1940; his mother and sister's deportation to Treblinka; being sent to a labor camp in June 1941; his ability to survive due to his value as a worker; his labor in a munitions factor; his escape from deportation to death camps; his brief reunion with his father; a series of dangerous encounters that he experienced; surviving in the countryside until his liberation, having been aided by his father's former customers; his return to Radom; the devastation he witnessed; his decision to leave for Palestine; traveling through Poland, Hungary, and Austria; visiting a transit camp run by the Jewish Brigade in Italy before boarding a ship for Palestine; his life in the Israeli underground, the Army, and the various work he did; changing his name to Golan; emigrating to the United States in 1954; marrying, having children, and establishing a successful construction business in Redwood City and Palo Alto.
    Interviewee
    Saul Golan
    Interviewer
    Steven Lang
    Date
    interview:  1996 January 17
    interview:  1996 February 29
    interview:  1996 March 22
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    6 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Golan, Saul.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Saul Golan on January 17, 1996, February 29, 1996, and March 22, 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 08:46:25
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