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Interviewee: Alexander Gertner
Interviewer: David P. Boder
Recordist: David P. Boder
Translator: David P. Boder
Editor: Eben E. English
Identifier
gertnerA_9-77_9-78_9-79
Date Created
1946-08-26
Language
Yiddish
Physical Form
Wire recording
Extent
1:51:38
Geographic Subject
Geneva
Maramureş County
Oradea
Budapest
Oradea Ghetto
Auschwitz concentration camp
Birkenau concentration camp
Berlin
Monowitz concentration camp
Gleiwitz concentration camp
Wrocław
Buchenwald concentration camp
Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Bolkenhain concentration camp
Hirschberg concentration camp
Waldheim concentration camp
Weimar
Germany
Poland
Hungary
Romania
Resource Type
Sound
Local Identifier
gertnerA
http://digital.library.iit.edu:8080/fcrepo/rest/61/92/8c/6b/61928c6b-4c61-4d69-bcf7-be832c83b643
Creation Location
Creation location: Community home for displaced Jewish refugees, Geneva
Spool
9-77
9-78
9-79
Interview location
Community home for displaced Jewish refugees
SOLR query
Aviary identifier
17613

Interviewee: Alexander Gertner Interviewer: David P. Boder

Date recorded:
August-26-1946
Interview Location: Community home for displaced Jewish refugees, Geneva, Switzerland
Interview language(s):
Yiddish
Duration:
1:51:38
Spool:
9-77, 9-78, 9-79
Recordist: David P. Boder Translator: David P. Boder Editor: Eben E. English

Biographical Information

Name:
Alexander Gertner
Age at time of interview:
19
Faith:
Jewish
Gender:
male
Birthplace: Maramureş County, Romania
Birth date:
November-16-1926
Alternate name(s):
Sholom
Interned At:
Waldheim concentration camp
Oradea Ghetto
Hirschberg concentration camp
Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Buchenwald concentration camp
Bolkenhain concentration camp
Birkenau concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp
Liberation Date:
April 11, 1945
Liberated By:
United States
Location at time of liberation: Weimar, Germany
Location at time of invasion: Oradea, Romania
Nationality: Romania
Role during holocaust:
victim

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