http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50621 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/retrieve/188026 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50621 Search the Channel search http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58319 Title: Interview of Noemi Engel Ebenstein <br/> <br/>Authors: Ebenstein, Noemi Engel; Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L. <br/> <br/>Abstract: An interview with Noemi Engel Ebenstein, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mrs. Ebenstein, born in 1941, is a child survivor of the Holocaust. In her interview she retells stories told to her by her mother about how the family survived the Holocaust. Her father was sent to a forced labor camp when Noemi was a baby. In May 1944, Noemi, her brother and mother were deported from Subotica, Yugoslavia to the camps, first to Strasshof labor and then to Moosbierbaum where they were liberated by the Soviet army. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57191 Title: Michael Weiss interview <br/> <br/>Authors: Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L.; Weiss, Michael <br/> <br/>Abstract: An interview with Michael Weiss, a survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Sid Bolkosky. <br/> <br/>Description: An interview with Michael Weiss, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. Born in Kascony, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Weiss chronicles his experiences under the Czechoslovakians, Hungarians and Germans, both prior to and during the Second World War. Mr. Weiss and his family were shipped to the Hungarian ghetto of Beregszasz (Berehovo) in 1944. From Beregszasz, the family was deported to Auschwitz where his mother was gassed by the Germans. From Auschwitz, Weiss and his father were sent to Buchenwald and then on to Zeitz, located approximately fifteen miles south of Leipzig in Central Germany. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/57182 Title: Szymon Binke interview <br/> <br/>Authors: Binke, Szymon; Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L. <br/> <br/>Abstract: An interview with Szymon Binke, a survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Sidney Bolkosky. <br/> <br/>Description: An interview with Szymon Binke, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Born in Łódź, Poland in 1931, Mr. Binke relates his experiences growing up in Poland before and during the war. According to Mr. Binke, prior to the German invasion of 1939, he and his family experienced very little anti-Semitism by the Polish population and his father, who owned a feed store, worked very closely with many Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) living in, Łódź prior to the outbreak of the war. Mr. Binke’s family, consisting of his mother, father, a younger sister and six aunts and uncles remained in Łódź after the German invasion of 1939. Shortly after the invasion, all Jews in Łódź were required to relocate to the Baluty district of the city, which became the Jewish Ghetto. After relocation, twelve members of the Binke family settled in their grandfather’s house which was already located in the Ghetto. Once in the ghetto, Mr. Binke worked at several different jobs including in a metal factory, the Altschuhlager (old shoe factory) and selling candy in the ghetto. After several years of living in the Ghetto, the Binke family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau ca. 1944. Mr. Binke has no recollection of the round-up or deportation, only that he and his family had hidden from the Germans but were caught. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mr. Binke’s mother, aunt, sister and one female cousin were gassed and Mr. Binke along with his father and four uncles were taken to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Camp), where Mr. Binke was separated from his father and uncle’s. Mr. Binke was placed in the Kinderblock (Youth Block) across a fence from his father and uncles. To see his remaining family, Mr. Binke jumped the fence separating him from their block and realizing it was too late to return to the Kinderblock, Mr. Binke remained there and was able to be transferred to the Kaufering work camps with his father and uncles several days later. After transfer to the Kaufering forced labor camps, (a series of sub-camps attached to the main camp at Dachau), Mr. Binke and his father remained together, both being transferred from Kaufering to Landshut and then to Mühldorf. In Mühldorf, Mr. Binke worked at a cloister where the resident nuns gave him extra rations and when he later contracted typhus, helped him recover. Mr. Binke and his father were liberated in May 1945, while aboard a train in Seeshaupt, Germany. His father became ill in Bad Tölz and was hospitalized. Mr. Binke eventually continued on to a Displaced Persons Camp in Feldafing, Germany and then to Bremen, where he and his father took a ship to New York City in 1950. From there Mr. Binke and his father moved to Detroit, Michigan. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/51471 Title: Simon Kalmas interview <br/> <br/>Authors: Bolkosky, Sidney M.; Wraight, Jamie L.; Kalmas, Simon; Kirsch, Arthur <br/> <br/>Abstract: An interview with Simon Kalmas, survivor of the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, by Arthur Kirsch. <br/> <br/>Description: An interview with Simon Kalmas, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Arthur Kirsch. Simon Kalmas was born in Drobin, Poland in 1915. As a boy he learned the trade of tinsmithing. After the German invasion of Poland, Simon and the men of his town were taken and held in another city for five days before being returned home and told to move into the Drobin ghetto; later moving to the Neustadt Oberschlesien ghetto. Simon had the chance to escape to Russia but chose to stay with his family in Poland. The family remained together until 1942 when they were deported to Auschwitz. Simon was chosen for work in the coal mines of IG Farben Industry before being selected for his tinsmithing skills to repair the roofs of bombarded barracks from 1944 until 1945. After that, Simon was forced to march to Gleiwitz in a snowstorm to catch a transport train to Buchenwald where he was liberated. Simon moved to Nashville, Tennessee in April 1949 but moved permanently to Detroit in January 1950 because of the racism he saw happening against African Americans in the South.