Camps

"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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  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

   
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  George 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)

   
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  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