USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Shoshanah Leviṭah

Oral History | Digitized | VHA Interview Code: 31664

Overview

Interviewee: Shoshanah Leviṭah
Experience Group: Jewish Survivor
Gender: F
Interview Length: 2:55:57
Interview Date: 5/18/1997
Interview Location: Central / Israel
Birth Year: 1929
Birth City: Kusnica (Czechoslovakia)
Birth Country: Czechoslovakia
Camps: Gebhardsdorf (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Krakau-Plaszow (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Sankt Georgenthal (Czechoslovakia : Concentration Camp)
Hiding or False Identity Location: Kusnica (Czechoslovakia)
Type of Hiding Place: forests
Liberated By: armed forces/ Soviet
Location of Liberation: Sankt Georgenthal (Czechoslovakia : Concentration Camp)
Other Experiences: displaced persons camps
Nazi medical experiments
refugee children transports
orphanages and children's homes
medical experiments in the camps
Prewar Religious Identity: Satmar Hasidism
Postwar Religious Identity: Judaism
Description: Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.