Howard Cwick was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 25, 1923, to Samuel and Sarah Cwick, both Polish immigrants. Howard had an older sister, Sylvia. The
Cwick family spoke both English and Yiddish, kept a kosher home, and attended synagogue three times a week. Howard went to school at P.S. 100 in the Bronx before
going on to Brooklyn Technical High School. When he was seven years old, Howard received his first camera and became interested in photography.
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Simon Drucker was born in 1924 in Paris, France, in a Jewish family of Polish origin. His parents, Abraham and Thérèse, left Poland in 1921. Simon had a younger
brother, Isidore. Engaged in the French Foreign Legion during the outbreak of the war, Abraham was arrested in June 1942 and deported first to Pithiviers, and later to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.
Paul Engel was born into a middle-class Jewish family on May 4, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. He had a younger brother, Robert. When World War I broke out in 1914, his father, Eduard, was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. Captured as a prisoner of war, he spent six years in Siberia working in a coal mine, finally reuniting with his family in 1920. In Vienna, Eduard owned a perfume wholesale business. Before the war, Paul attended a primary school and was accepted to a Gymnasium in the 14th district of Vienna.
Bella Barouch remembers sneaking food out of the kitchen when imprisoned at Wüstegiersdorf concentration camp. She reflects that she and other female prisoners would dream about the food they would eat if they were ever liberated.
Sinti and Roma survivor Wellesina McCrary recalls when her family was arrested and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Ten udostępniony do ściągnięcia plik video zawiera fragmenty relacji żydowskich ocalałych z Zagłady złożone w Archiwum Historii Wizualnej Instytutu Fundacji Shoah USC, którzy urodzili się i doratali w polskim mieście - Oświęcimiu, teraz niesławnym z powodu ulokowania w nim systemu obozowego Auschwitz, stworzonego przez okupujące Polskę nazistowskie Niemcy.
Эта видео подборка содержит отрывки из интервью с евреями, которые пережили Холокост. Они родились и выросли в польском городе Освенцим — городе, приобрёвшим мировую известность после того, как немецко-фашистскими оккупантами в нём была создана система концентрационных лагерей под названием Аушвиц, во время Второй мировой войны. Интервью являются частью Архива визуальной истории фонда Шоа Университета Южной Калифорнии.
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