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Holocaust unfortunate shares experience
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Overview
- Interviewee
- Jaap Polak
- Interviewer
- Professor Selma Leydesdorff
- Date
- interview: 2010 March 08
- Geography
- creation: Eastchester Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Selma Leydesdorff
Physical Details
- Language
- Dutch
- Extent
- 1 digital file : MPEG-4.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Sobibór (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Selma Leydesdorff donated the oral history interviews of the Long Shadow of Sobibor collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2020. The interviews were produced by Professor Leydesdorff of the University of Amsterdam in association with project manager Mirjam Huffener of the Sobibor Foundation.
- Special Collection
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:08:39
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A Final Meeting: Holocaust survivors, rescuers meet in Hudson Falls
by Omar Ricardo Aquije, Glens Falls Post-Star
Photos by Jason McKibben
Holocaust survivor Ariela Rojek, right, was 11 years old in 1945 when she and 2,500 other concentration camp prisoners aboard a train near Magdeburg, Germany, were liberated by American forces including 1st Lt. Frank Towers, left with his son Frank Towers Jr., center. "You gave me my second life," Rojek told Towers Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, at Hudson Falls High School during an event reuniting soldiers and survivors.
Jason McKibben Glens Falls Post Star
HUDSON FALLS — In preparing to become soldiers, they were taught many things, most of all how to fight the enemy. But on April 13, 1945, members of the U.S. Army’s 30th Infantry Division were caught unprepared.
As they cut across Germany, through cold weather and 18-hour days of fighting, they found a train. Inside were 2,500 Jews who were packed together for six days — sick, dirty, with little food, and infested with lice, fleas and ticks.
The soldiers, riding Sherman tanks, knew how to fight, but were not prepared to treat so many people or for the shock of the train conditions.
“What we were to witness in those days was something we were not p