- Interviewee
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Jacob Gastwirth
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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2:22:40
- Interview Date
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8/29/1996
- Interview Location
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NY / U.S.A.
- Birth Year
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1924
- Birth City
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Tarnów (Poland)
- Birth Country
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Poland
- Camps
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concentration camps/ German
Crawinkel (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Flossenbürg (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Czarny Dunajec (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Krakau-Plaszow (Poland : Concentration Camp)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Cracow (Poland : Voivodship)
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ United States
- Location of Liberation
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Bavaria (Germany : State)
- Other Experiences
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displaced persons camps
escapes during forced marches
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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Orthodox Judaism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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Judaism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.