Presentation by Gene Meisels
Extent and Medium
18 digital files, WAV
10 digital files, WMA
Biographical History
David Meisels donated his father Gene Meisels' oral testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2020. The testimony was recorded during a commemoration at the University of Massachusetts during the 40th year anniversary of Gene Meisels' liberation from Wöbbelin concentration camp.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Meisels
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Meisels, Gene, 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Braunschweig (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Watenstedt (Concentration camp)
- Schilldenkmal (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Forced labor.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Jews--Ukraine--Vylok.
- Zakarpats'ka oblast' (Ukraine)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Poland.
- Vylok (Ukraine)
- Germany.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Romanies.
Genre
- Oral History
- Lectures.
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