- Interviewee
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Jirí Melan
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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1:09:30
- Interview Date
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6/4/1997
- Interview Location
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Prague / Czech Republic
- Birth Year
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1926
- Birth City
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Hodonin (Hodonin/ Moravia and Silesia/ Czechoslovakia)
- Birth Country
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Czechoslovakia
- Camps
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Golleschau (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Klinkerwerk (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Sachsenhausen (Germany : Concentration Camp)
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ Soviet
- Location of Liberation
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Germany
- Other Experiences
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prisons
orphanages and children's homes
- Prewar Religious Identity
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traditional Judaism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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none
- Aid Giver/ Liberator or War Crimes Trials Participant or Witness
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war crimes trial participants
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.