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"Concentration Camps" or "Labor Camps" were facilities in which people were incarcerated on the basis of their political and/or religious beliefs or ethnicity, usually without regard to due process.
Erna Anolik
Language: English
Jewish Survivor
Erna recalls arrival and intake procedures at Auschwitz-Birkenau. She describes the fate of newly arrived internees. Erna talks about volunteering for work, a measure she employed in vain to be reunited with her parents.
Gender: Female
DOB: Dec 15, 1923
City of birth: Uzhorod
Country of birth: Czechoslovakia
Camps: Auschwitz (Poland), Essen (Germany), Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
Went into hiding: Yes
Other experiences: escapes from camps
Erna Anolik
Language: English
Jewish Survivor
Erna recalls arrival and intake procedures at Auschwitz-Birkenau. She describes the fate of newly arrived internees. Erna talks about volunteering for work, a measure she employed in vain to be reunited with her parents.
Gender: Female
DOB: Dec 15, 1923
City of birth: Uzhorod
Country of birth: Czechoslovakia
Camps: Auschwitz (Poland), Essen (Germany), Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
Went into hiding: Yes
Other experiences: escapes from campsGeorge Gottlieb
Language: English
Jewish Survivor
George recalls a guard who allowed George and his brother 20 minutes to find their mother inside of a camp. It was the last time they saw her.
Gender: Male
DOB: Jan 16, 1929
City of birth: Budapest
Country of birth: Hungary
Ghettos: Komárom (Hungary)
Camp(s) liberated or visited post-liberation: Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland), Braunschweig (Germany), Ravensbrück (Germany)Ellis Lewin
Language: English
Jewish Survivor
Ellis Lewin remembers arrival at Auschwitz and separation of family members. He explains his parents' efforts to survive the selection.
Gender: Male
DOB: May 22, 1932
City of Birth: Lódz (Poland)
Country of Birth: Poland
Ghettos: Lódz (Poland : Ghetto)
Went into hiding: Yes
Other experiences: Displaced persons camps
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"Concentration Camps" or "Labor Camps" were facilities in which people were incarcerated on the basis of their political and/or religious beliefs or ethnicity, usually without regard to due process.
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This theme focuses on how the Nazis forced large numbers of Jews into restricted housing areas, often enforced with walls, fences, and/or guard towers. Movement in and out of the ghettos was strictly controlled and violation was punishable by death.
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These testimony segments focus on physical concealment (as an individual or part of a family) to avoid ghettoization, incarceration, deporation, or other forms of persecution
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These testimony segments focus on descriptions of home life, family events, religious observances, and education before the occurrence of genocide.