- Interviewee
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Simon Chester
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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2:18:10
- Interview Date
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3/22/1996
- Interview Location
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WA / U.S.A.
- Birth Year
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1916
- Birth City
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Lódz (Poland)
- Birth Country
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Russia/Soviet Russia
- Camps
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prisoner of war camps/ German
Gleiwitz I (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
- Location of Liberation
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Germany
- Other Experiences
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displaced persons camps
escapes from the ghettos
escapes during deportations
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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Orthodox Judaism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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Conservative Judaism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.