Oral history interview with Yitzchok Wargon
Extent and Medium
5 digital files, MPEG-4
Creator(s)
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Amud Aish Memorial Museum's Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center, produced the interview with Yitzchok Wargon on May 21, 2014.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
This testimony was recorded through a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Amud Aish Memorial Museum Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Mr. Yitzchok Wargon
- Wargon, Yitzchok.
- Dr. Henri Lustiger Thaler
Corporate Bodies
- Weiden (Displaced persons camp)
- Neu Freimann (Displaced persons camp)
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Schlieben (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Rabbis--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Lice.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Shooting (Execution)
- Jewish refugees.
- Skarzysko-Kamienna (Poland)
- Fingers--Wounds and injuries.
- Jews--Poland--Radomsko.
- Star of David badges.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Neufreimann (Munich, Germany)
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Radomsko (Poland)
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Death march survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Barter.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Holocaust survivors--Marriage.
- Bombing, Aerial--Poland--Radomsko.
- Munich (Germany)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Radomsko.
- Jews--Music.
- Black market.
- Starvation.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Forced labor.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Concentration camp escapes.
- Weiden in der Oberpfalz (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History
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