Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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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
Recommended Citation
Salcman, Arthur, "Arthur Salcman Oral History Interview" (2011). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 39.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/39
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