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Oral history interview with Aron Blum

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.643 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0643

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    Oral history interview with Aron Blum

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    Interview Summary
    Aron Blum, born on May 18, 1921 in Poland, Maków Mazowiecki, discusses his father who was a peddler; prewar relations between Jews and Gentiles; his father being well known in the larger community; prewar Maków Mazowiecki; cheder; receiving help from a German woman prewar when his leg was very infected; that same woman later rescuing him from forced labor in 1939 or 1940; Maków Mazowiecki ghetto; fleeing to Russia but returning; forced labor in Gunsewa Krasnosholz (sp?) 1939 to 1941 while his parents were in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in November 1942; medical experimentation; Josef Mengele; Sonderkommando; building the crematoria; saving his brother; building sewers; Buna Werke (I.G. Farben complex) in the spring of 1943; working in an oil factory; Sosnowitz, Mauthausen, and Gusen I camps; and immigrating to the United States in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Aron Blum
    Interviewer
    Roger Nehrer
    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
    2 sound cassettes (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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:39:50
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