Oral history interview with Leon Merrick
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, WAV
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
- Forced labor.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Death march survivors.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
Genre
- Oral History