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Oral history interview with Murray Gordon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.828 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0828

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    Oral history interview with Murray Gordon

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Gordon's life in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his experiences in the Kovno ghetto and with Zionist underground, and the atrocities perpetrated against Jews that he witnessed. Mr. Gordon describes being deported to Dachau with his father, being separated from his mother and brother, both of whom perished, the death march he endured, and his liberation. Mr. Gordon discusses his attempts to immigrate to the United States, attending the University of Munich, and his eventual success and arrival in New York in 1949. Mr. Gordon describes his career, marriage and children, and his past difficulties in discussing his Holocaust experiences.
    Interviewee
    Murray Gordon
    Date
    interview:  1989 December 07
    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
    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 Murray Gordon on December 7, 1989. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 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 08:47:04
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