- Interviewee
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Jack Somer
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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1:57:44
- Interview Date
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6/3/1996
- Interview Location
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ON / Canada
- Birth Year
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1923
- Birth City
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Radziejów (Warsaw/ Poland)
- Birth Country
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Poland
- Camps
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concentration camps/ German
Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Gleiwitz (Germany : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Magdeburg (Germany : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Magdeburg (Prussia/ Germany)
- Type of Hiding Place
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forests
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ United States
- Location of Liberation
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Germany
- Other Experiences
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displaced persons camps
escapes from the ghettos
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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traditional 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.