- Interviewee
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Charles Van West
- Experience Group
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Jewish Survivor
- Gender
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M
- Interview Length
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2:01:21
- Interview Date
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2/24/1998
- Interview Location
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Brussels Region / Belgium
- Birth Year
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1913
- Birth City
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Brussels (Belgium)
- Birth Country
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Belgium
- Camps
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Mechelen (Belgium : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz I (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Neuengamme (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Gross Rosen (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)
Ravensbrück (Germany : Concentration Camp)
- Hiding or False Identity Location
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Brussels (Belgium)
- Type of Hiding Place
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buildings
- Liberated By
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armed forces/ French
- Location of Liberation
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Ravensbrück (Germany : Concentration Camp)
- Other Experiences
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prisons
concealment of Jewish identity
- Prewar Religious Identity
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Atheism
- Postwar Religious Identity
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Atheism
- Description
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Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.