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Oral history interview with Daniel Berkowicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.636 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0636

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    Oral history interview with Daniel Berkowicz

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    Interview Summary
    Daniel Berkowicz, born in Wolanow, Poland, discusses the German invasion of Poland; the Germans quickly rounding up the Jews to Radom; Wolanow ghetto; Ukrainians and Poles working with the Germans; the death of his mother; his brother organizing younger Jews (including himself) as workers to build barracks for the Germans; the nonworkers being deported on trains possibly to Majdanek concentration camp; Germans overseeing Ukrainians killing Radom Jews by machine guns; seeing a mother and child being shot; forced labor in an ammunition factory in Starachowice; seeing Adolf Eichmann at Starachowice in 1940; selections; smuggling out a rifle to sell to a partisan to afford false Polish papers for his wife Lucyna Berkowicz (née Wiesman); his wife escaping Starachowice with her false papers; his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; forced labor in a tank factory in Vienna around 1944; forced march from Vienna to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp; the Germans leaving and the Americans arriving in May 1945; survivors rushing for the food supplies; reuniting with his wife in 1945; living in Stuttgart; and immigrating to the United States in 1947.
    Interviewee
    Daniel Berkowicz
    Interviewer
    Robert Angler
    Date
    interview:  1985 April 21
    Geography
    creation: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Extent
    1 sound cassette (60 min.).

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. The interview was recorded for the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in 1985.
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    2023-11-16 08:39:47
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