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Oral history interview with Moishe Garbarz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.909 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0909

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    Oral history interview with Moishe Garbarz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Moishe Garbarz, born December 28, 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his childhood in Warsaw; the antisemitism he experienced; his family's poverty; his education until the age of 12; his work in a textile factory; the opportunity to work in a textile factory in France and his move to Paris in 1928; his life and experiences in Paris, including his marriage and the birth of a son; the occupation of Paris by Nazi Germany; being rounded up in 1941 and sent to Le Vernet, a Vichy concentration camp, for a year and a half; his deportation to Auschwitz in July 1942; his experiences in Auschwitz; the dangers he and the other prisoners were subject to; being assigned to work in a coal mine during the winter, which helped him to escape the brutal winter conditions; later being transferred to kitchen work; the advance of the Soviet Army; being forced on a death march to Buchenwald concentration camp; the abysmal conditions he endured; being liberated by Soviet troops; returning to Paris and reuniting with his wife and son who had been hidden during the war; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Moishe Garbarz
    Date
    interview:  1991 August 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
    3 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Garbarz, Moishe.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Moishe Garbarz on August 20, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
    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 08:47:26
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