Oral history interview with Leon Merrick
Biographical History
This is an interview conducted for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program, a seasonal program that enables USHMM visitors to hear Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Leon Merrick
- Merrick, Leon.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Death marches.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Death march survivors.
- Men--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History