USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Josef Lustman

Oral History | Digitized | VHA Interview Code: 32723

Overview

Interviewee: Josef Lustman
Experience Group: Jewish Survivor
Gender: M
Interview Length: 3:18:48
Interview Date: 7/30/1997
Interview Location: Rio de Janeiro / Brazil
Birth Year: 1920
Birth City: Bodzechów (Poland)
Birth Country: Poland
Camps: Bodzechow (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Mauthausen (Austria : Concentration Camp)
St. Georgen (Austria : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Königshütte (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Ostrowiec (Kielce/ Poland : Concentration Camp)
Hiding or False Identity Location: Bodzechów (Poland)
Kielce (Poland : Voivodship)
Type of Hiding Place: forests
hiding places
Liberated By: armed forces/ Canadian
Location of Liberation: St. Georgen (Austria : Concentration Camp)
Other Experiences: escapes from the camps
Prewar Religious Identity: Orthodox Judaism
Postwar Religious Identity: traditional Judaism
Description: Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.