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"The minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs."

"I would never believe that a person can survive standing in the outside in the wintertime without clothes for so long."

"It ended up being called the death march, because the ravines and the gutters, they were all red from blood."

"'Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously beautiful…'"

  • "The minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs."

  • Alice Lok Cahana

    Alice Lok Cahana

    Born 1929
    Budapest, Hungary

    Describes arrival at Bergen-Belsen
    Oral History

  • Helen Lebowitz Goldkind

    Helen Lebowitz Goldkind

    Born 1928
    Volosianka, Czechoslovakia

    Describes treatment of new prisoners at Auschwitz
    Oral History

  • Leo Schneiderman

    Leo Schneiderman

    Born 1921
    Lodz, Poland

    Describes arrival at Auschwitz, selection, and separation from his family
    Oral History

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  • "I would never believe that a person can survive standing in the outside in the wintertime without clothes for so long."

  • Doriane Kurz

    Doriane Kurz

    Born 1936
    Vienna, Austria

    Recalls Bergen-Belsen prisoners hauling wagons of corpses
    Oral History

  • Ernest Koenig

    Ernest Koenig

    Born 1917
    Vienna, Austria

    Describes reaching the verge of death while in a subcamp of Auschwitz.
    Oral History

  • Eddie Hellmuth Willner

    Eddie Hellmuth Willner

    Born 1926
    Muenchen-Gladbach, Germany

    Describes conditions in Langenstein
    Oral History

  • Leo Schneiderman

    Leo Schneiderman

    Born 1921
    Lodz, Poland

    Describes routine at the Ebensee camp
    Oral History

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  • "It ended up being called the death march, because the ravines and the gutters, they were all red from blood."

  • Thomas Buergenthal

    Thomas Buergenthal

    Born May 11, 1934
    Lubochna, Czechoslovakia

    ID Card

  • Lily Mazur Margules

    Lily Mazur Margules

    Born 1924
    Vilna

    Describes death march from a labor camp near Stutthof
    Oral History

  • Lilly Appelbaum Malnik

    Lilly Appelbaum Malnik

    Born 1928
    Antwerp, Belgium

    Describes death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen
    Oral History

  • Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall

    Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall

    Born 1929
    Klucarky, Czechoslovakia

    Describes the death march from Auschwitz
    Oral History

  • Steven Springfield

    Steven Springfield

    Born 1923
    Riga, Latvia

    Describes 1945 death march from Stutthof camp system (Burggraben camp)
    Oral History

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  • "'Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously beautiful…'"

  • Israel Cendorf

    Israel Cendorf

    Born May 19, 1902
    Lodz, Poland

    ID Card

  • Bart Stern

    Bart Stern

    Born 1926
    Hungary

    Describes torture of prisoners during Hanukkah and a subsequent act of spiritual resistance--a clandestine celebration of Hanukkah
    Oral History

  • Sandor (Shony) Alex Braun

    Sandor (Shony) Alex Braun

    Born 1930
    Cristuru-Secuiesc, Romania

    Describes how music gave him the strength to survive while imprisoned in concentration camps
    Oral History

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