Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
Menachem Limor was born in Częstochowa, Poland, and was imprisoned in the ghetto there in 1941 and forced to work at the HASAG ammunition factory. In January 1945, the day before the Red Army liberated the city, he and the other workers on his shift were taken to Buchenwald. In the camp, he worked in the hospital before liberation, and continued to help there after the Americans arrived; since he spoke a little English, he asked the soldiers for medicine and such, which they gave him. Limor went to Israel after the war, and was one of the first soldiers in the Israeli army. He came to the United States in 1969 because his brother was injured and needed help running his business. His wife, Lea Limor, also speaks in this interview.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Holocaust survivors, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, HASAG Częstochowianka (Concentration camp), Buchenwald (Concentration camp), Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel
Extent
00:16:24; 11 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Czestochowa (Poland); Weimar (Germany); Israel
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00080
Recommended Citation
Limor, Menachem, "Menachem Limor Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 68.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/68
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