Morris Ostreicher

Jewish Holocaust Survivor

Morris talks about spending Rosh Hashanah—the holiday commemorating the start of the Jewish New Year—in a labor camp in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1944. He recalls pleading with the camp barber not to shave his hair, because it was Rosh Hashanah.

Gender: Male
DOB: July 27, 1910
City of birth: Strabicovo
Country of birth: Austria-Hungary
Ghettos:
Sevlus (Czechoslovakia)
Went into hiding: No
Other experiences: Concentration Camps: Markstädt (Germany), Märzbachtal (Germany), Auschwitz (Poland), Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany)

 

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