Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project

Interviewee

Arthur Salcman

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Interviewer

Christopher Patti

Publication Date

3-2-2011

Date

2010-05-04

Abstract

Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Arthur Salcman. Salcman was born in Posa, Czechoslovakia, in 1911. When the Sudetenland was annexed in 1938, he was in Plzen working as an engineer at the Skoda Works. He left Plzen and went to Michalovce in Slovakia, where he was a member of a partisan resistance group. Salcman had two close encounters with the Germans but managed to escape both times. He immigrated to the United States in 1949 and worked for the American Machine and Foundry Company. In this interview, he also describes his childhood and family life before the war. His wife, Lilly Salcman, also a Holocaust survivor, is present during this interview and frequently comments. Salcman died in September 2010.

Keywords

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945, Jewish resistance--Czechoslovakia, World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Czechoslovakia, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Genocide, Crimes against humanity

Extent

01:30:13; 35 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Bratislava (Slovakia); Auschwitz (Poland); Prague (Czech Republic); Plzeň Basin (Czech Republic)

Language

English

Digital Date

2022

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

F60-00027

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