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Grubsztein, Szlama

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Gronowski, Simon
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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à venir

Szlama Grubsztein was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1922 to Polish-Jewish émigrés. He recounts his family was totally assimilated; attending public school in Brussels; learning he was Jewish after being harassed as a Jew; participating in a Zionist youth group; German invasion; fleeing to Halle; returning home; working as a tailor; refusing to wear the star; his boss allowing him to sleep at his house to avoid round-ups; his parents' deportation to Malines in 1942 (he never saw them again); working as a librarian at the synagogue; obtaining false papers; denouncement by a Jewish collaborator; deportation to Malines, Auschwitz/Birkenau, then Gleiwitz; slave labor building barracks, in a factory, and painting; public executions; a Belgian prisoner providing him with extra bread; a death march to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Kraków; hospitalization; and returning to Belgium with assistance from the Red Cross. Mr. G. discusses relations among nationality groups and camp hierarchies; focusing solely on survival from minute to minute; his belief that survival was due to luck; and two visits to Auschwitz.

(Copyright: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies - Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/200
Date interview : 29/01/2002
Lieu interview : Domicile du témoin (8400 Oostende)
Durée interview : 3h40
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Yannis Thanessekos et Jean-Marie De Becker
Cameraman : Jens Kallweit
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : Oui
Séquençage interview : Non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Auschwitz / Birkenau | Blechhammer / Auschwitz | Dossin / Malines/Mechelen | Gleiwitz / Auschwitz | Juif / Juive | Marche / train de la mort

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