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Oral history interview with Isak Borenstein

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.647 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0647

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    Oral history interview with Isak Borenstein

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    Interview Summary
    Isak Borenstein, born on May 5, 1918 in Radom, Poland, discusses prewar antisemitism; fleeing to Russia in December 1940; several camps; surviving because of aid and additional food; working in Krasnodar until 1941; enlisting in the Soviet Army; Volksdeutche denouncing him; changing his name to Bronyevski; hiding; forced march from Krasnodar in November 1941; escaping and receiving help from Russian peasants; joining partisans, being denounced as a Jew; receiving help from Volksdeutche; lying about his Jewishness when questioned by the Soviet Army to end up with Soviet POWs in Yipyul Petrosk [PH]; deportation to Mauthausen concentration camp as a non-Jewish POW in 1943; being transferred to Lintz; making wheels for tanks; being put on a barge in March 1945; liberation by the Americans; serving in the Soviet Army postwar until 1946; returning to Lwów; living in a displaced persons camp in Germany; reuniting with his brother and mother postwar; and immigrating to the United States in 1951.
    Interviewee
    Isak Borenstein
    Interviewer
    Marlene Pressman
    Date
    interview:  1985 April 23
    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 08:39:51
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