Seeking Survivors who were interviewed in 1946 by David Boder

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking survivors who were interviewed in 1946 by David Boder, a professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The interviews, done with a sound recording device, took place in France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

Boder’s interviews capture survivors’ immediate reactions to the Nazi-led genocide undiluted by time or subsequent experiences. They mark the first time many survivors spoke on record about their experiences.

The Museum’s Department of Oral History is trying to locate these individuals to re-interview them in order to gain a more complete picture of their initial recollections and contrast their original perspectives of the Holocaust to their views today.

If you have information about any of the survivors listed below, please contact:

Oral History Department
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(202) 488-6103 or oralhistory@ushmm.org

Media interested in the project or in obtaining the list of survivors the Museum is seeking should contact Andy Hollinger at 202-488-6133 or ahollinger@ushmm.org

Below are the names of survivors interviewed in 1946 in sound recordings made by Professor David Boder. Their locations in 1946 are listed. Most birth dates are approximate. The spelling of names may not be exact. If you have information about any of these individuals, please contact Oral History Department, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, (202) 488-6103, or at oralhistory@ushmm.org

The Museum is seeking these survivors

N A M E	BIRTHPLACE	APPROX BIRTHDATE	WARTIME LOCATIONS	LOCATION IN 1946
Bennayor, Rita	Salonika	1925-26	Auschwitz, Ravensbrück [Tattoo 38758]	Aug. 1946: Paris
Bicenhaus, Polia or Bisenhaus	Staszów(?), Poland	?	Kielce, Czestochowa, Bergen-Belsen, Burgau, Turkheim, Dachau	July 1946: Paris, ORT school
Deutsch, Yanusch	Near Budapest	1928-29	Szekeszfehervar ghetto, Bergen-Belsen, Montreux, Engelberg	Aug. 1946: Geneva, ORT school
Eisenberg, Kalman	Starachowice, Poland	1928	Starachowice, Auschwitz, Buna, Flossenburg, Buchenwald	July 1946: Paris - Chateau Boucicaut
Ferdinansk, Victor	Lithuania	1926	Catholic seminarian; crossed into Germany. Spent war in Munich monastery. Quit seminary at end of war.	Sept. 1946: University of Munich
Finkel, Nathan	Poland?	1921/26	Rovno (Pol.), Lvov, Sosnowiec, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, Feldafing	Sept. 1946: University of Munich
Freilich, Esther	Luxembourg?	March 11, 1933	Paris (Vel d'Hiv), Pithiviers, Drancy	Aug. 1946: Paris
Frydman, Henja	Pinsk, Poland	1924	Paris, Drancy, Birkenau. Tattoo 46603.	Aug. 1946: Paris
Gutman, Ephraim	Ukraine	1917	Kovno ghetto	Sept. 1946: Paris (Henonville)
Hamburger, Ludwig	Katowice, Poland	1926-27	Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Gross Rosen, Buchenwald	Aug. 1946: Geneva
Herskovitz, Mendel	Lodz, Poland	1927-28	Lodz ghetto, Czestochowa, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald, Dachau	July 1946: Paris, Chateau Boucicaut
Kahn, John (Jean)	France?	1930-31	Paris, Marseille, Spain, Barcelona, Casablanca	1946: Paris
Krueger, Esther	Kielce, Poland	1925-26,	Kielce, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa	Sept. 1946: Tradate, Italy
Lea/Lehr, David	Salonika	1917-18	Bologna, Krakow, Birkenau (tattoo 120930), Warsaw, Dachau-Landsberg	Aug. 1946: Paris
Linik, Sophia	Ukraine?	1927	Kiev, Rostov, Georgia, Makhachkala, Krasnovodsk, Alma Ata, Krakow	Sept. 1946: Paris (Henonville)
Linik, Wanda	Ukraine?	1935-36	Kiev, Rostov, Georgia, Makhachkala, Krasnovodsk, Alma Ata, Krakow	Sept. 1946: Paris, (Henonville)
Lukashevicius, Vladas	Lyntupy, Poland (near Lithuania)	1913	Riesenberge, Svencionys (Lith.), Siauliai C.C., Herzogenburg, Deutschkreuz, Vienna, Brinberg (ph)	Sept. 1946: Munich
Meltzak, Rose	Busk Poland (now Ukraine)	1932-33,	Busk, Antonowka, USSR (3 years hiding in forest with mother, brother.)	Sept. 1946: Paris (Bellevue)
Mizrachi, Manis	Salonika	Jan. 17, 1922	Athens, Bergen-Belsen	Aug. 1946: Paris
Neiman, Clara	Saratov, Russia	1920-21,	Russian, converted to Judaism. Spent war in Kutaisi (Georgia)	Sept. 1946: Paris (Henonville)
Neufeld, Helena	Warsaw	1912-13	Lvov, Warsaw ghetto (Nowolipie St.), Pawiak prison, Bergen-Belsen	Aug. 1946: Paris
Paulus, Alphonsus	Lithuania	1912-13	Suvalkija, Kaunas-7th Fort, Pravieniskes camp, Dachau	Sept. 1946: Munich
Perl, Abram Mr. (used many aliases)	Slovakia (in Kurima)	1919	Hid in forest; Slovakia work camp (Lager Visnie); partisan, Slovak uprising.	Sept. 1946: Tradate, Italy
Piskorz, Benjamin	Warsaw	?	Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, Buna-Auschwitz, Gleiwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, Dora-Nordhausen. Tattoo # 128181	Sept. 1946: Tradate, Italy
Reich, Sigmund	Austria (childhood in Belgium)	1926	Krakow, Radomysl Wielki, Mielec, Flossenburg, Kamenz (Gross Rosen), Dachau, Austria, Switzerland	Aug. 1946: Geneva, ORT school
Schiver, Toba	Czechoslovakia	1923-24	Mateszalka ghetto (Hung.), Auschwitz, Allach, Prague	Sept. 1946: Tradate, Italy
Shachnovski, Leon	Russia	?	Kovno ghetto, Stuthof, Dachau, Augsburg (Messersmith/airplane factory), Munich-DP camp (Deputy to ORT convention in Paris)	July 1946: Paris, ORT Convention
Wolf, Isaac	Lvov	1915-16,	Escaped Lvov, joined Red Army. DP camps in Judenberg, Trofaiach, Salzburg, Italy.	Sept. 1946: Tradate, Italy

David Boder interviewed a total of over 100 displaced persons. The list above represents the youngest people interviewed by Prof. Boder and thus those with the greatest chance of being located today. Additional names of individuals interviewed by Prof. Boder can be found on the Voices of the Holocaust Web site.

The photographs below show places where interviews were conducted.

Geneva circa 1945	Fontenay [Paris] 1946	Munich 1947-48
Group portrait of Jewish youth living at the Hôme de la Foręt children's home in Geneva, Switzerland. Among those pictured are Gérard Alexander, Norbert Bikales, Heinz Diewold, Alex Kramskoi, David Hirsch and Walter Herzig. Hôme de la Foręt was an all boys children's home run by OSE Suisse. Most of the staff and children had previously been in OSE homes in France and had fled to safety in Switzerland. After the war, the home also cared for young survivors from Buchenwald. —United States Holocaust Museum #99453	View of Château de Boucicaut, the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) children's home at Fontenay aux Roses. The Fontenay aux Roses children's home, also known as Chateau de Boucicaut, was opened in November 1945 to house religious, child survivors of Buchenwald. Under the direction of Mr. Reich, it housed some 46 to 50 boys before its closure in 1948. —United States Holocaust Museum #32961	Group portrait of Jewish Displaced Persons college students in Munich. —United States Holocaust Museum #32450