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Oral history interview with Axel Schloss

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.732 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0732

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    Oral history interview with Axel Schloss

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Schloss's young childhood in Plauen, Germany; his family's escape when he was age 5 to Brussels, Belgium; the difficulty of their life in Belgium; and the family's arrest in 1943 and transport to Malines concentration camp. He describes his family's deportation to Auschwitz, where they perished, and his experiences in a fortified farmhouse where other Jewish children were also imprisoned. Mr. Schloss discusses his escape with 120 other children in June 1944 with the assistance of the Belgium underground and going into hiding at a girl's school and with Belgian families until his liberation in September 1944. He describes living in an orphanage until December 1947, and his immigration to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Axel Schloss
    Interviewer
    Pauline Rockman
    Date
    interview:  1990 May 01
    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 Axel Schloss on May 1, 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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