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Oral history interview with Aaron Kobel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.706 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0706

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    Oral history interview with Aaron Kobel

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Kobel's childhood in Tilsit, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia), the family's move to Kovno, Lithuania in 1938, and their forced move by Russian troops into the Slavodka (a suburb of Kovno) ghetto in 1940. Mr. Kobel describes the round-up and deportation of Jews by Nazi troops in 1941, his separation from his mother, and his and his father's deportation to Dachau, and then to Auschwitz. He describes the terrible conditions of forced labor and the beatings he received, the death march he endured, his condition upon liberation - at the age of 13 and weighing 60 pounds, and being nursed in a camp in Munich by American soldiers. Mr. Kobel describes his reunion with his mother, obtaining false papers and traveling to Israel by ship, and being detained by British troops and interned in Cyprus. He discusses his release from Cyprus and arrival in Israel, serving in the Israeli military until he was 18, and emigrating to the United States in 1952.
    Interviewee
    Aaron Kobel
    Interviewer
    Arwen Donahue
    Date
    interview:  1990 July 10
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Aaron Kobel on July 10, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 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 08:46:29
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