- Interviewee
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Yafah Mermelshteyn
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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F
- Interview Length
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2:57:57
- Interview Date
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5/28/1997
- Interview Location
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Central / Israel
- Birth Year
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1917
- Birth City
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Packanovo (Czechoslovakia)
- Camps
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Pürschkau (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)(generic)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Hainichen (Germany)(generic)
- Type of Hiding Place
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farms
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ Soviet
- Location of Liberation
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Hainichen (Germany)(generic)
- Other Experiences
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prisons
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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Orthodox Judaism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.