USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Yo´el Franḳenṭhal

Oral History | Digitized | VHA Interview Code: 16351

Overview

Interviewee: Yo´el Franḳenṭhal
Experience Group: Jewish Survivor
Gender: M
Interview Length: 2:44:07
Interview Date: 6/5/1996
Interview Location: West Bank / Israel
Birth Year: 1922
Birth City: Pabianice (Lodz/ Poland)
Birth Country: Poland
Camps: Neudachs (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Obernigk (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Andrzejów (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Gross Rosen (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Berga/Elster (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Litzmannstadt (Poland : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Liberated By: armed forces/ Soviet
Location of Liberation: Kadan (Czechoslovakia)
Other Experiences: prisons
displaced persons camps
escapes during forced marches
concealment of Jewish identity
Prewar Religious Identity: Ger Hasidism
Postwar Religious Identity: Hasidism
Description: Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.