Oral history interview with Morris Pelta
Morris Pelta (né Moishe Horowicz), born July 6, 1926, discusses growing up in Łódź, Poland; the beginning of the war; the creation of the Łódź Ghetto; life in the ghetto; being deported along with his family to Auschwitz; being given the number B-6602; doing forced labor at a satellite camp; being sent on a death march; being liberated by the Red Army; staying in a displaced persons camp in Germany; meeting his wife at the DP camp; immigrating to Israel; serving in the Israel Defense Forces; and immigrating to the United States. [The interview ends abruptly.]
- Interviewee
- Morris Pelta
- Interviewer
- Ms. Rikki Pelta
- Date
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interview:
2004 April
- Language
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English
- Extent
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1 sound microcassette.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rikki Pelta
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