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Oral history interview with Roman Tuchschneider

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1804 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1804

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    Oral history interview with Roman Tuchschneider

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dr. Roman Tuchschneider discusses his experiences in Lodz, Poland after the German invasion in September 1939; the segregation and the curfews; the internment of his family in the Lodz ghetto’ life in the ghetto, including the conditions and the work he performed; being deported with his father in 1944 to Auschwitz, where they remained for three months; the conditions in Auschwitz; their transfer to a factory in Gorlitz, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen; the work he performed and the conditions; being sent on a death march that eventually took them back to Gorlitz; his escape from Gorlitz one day before liberation on May 9, 1945; his reunion with his father; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Roman Tuchschneider
    Date
    interview:  1985 June 01
    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
    2 sound recording : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Tuchschneider, Roman.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Roman Tuchschneider on June 1, 1985. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2013.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:52:39
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