Oral history interview with Benjamin Maierchik

Identifier
irn502779
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1272.97
  • RG-50.120.0097
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502779

Extent and Medium

8 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Biographical History

Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Benjamin Maierchik in Israel on July 1, 1993, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Benjamin Maierchik
  • Maierchik, Benjamin, 1917-

Corporate Bodies

  • Poland. Polish Armed Forces
  • Red Army (Soviet Union)
  • Anders' Army (Polish 2nd Corps)

Subjects

  • Poznan (Poland)
  • Wloclawek (Poland)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  • L'viv (Ukraine)
  • Smolensk (Russia)
  • Prague (Czech Republic)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Poland.
  • Jews--Poland--Wloclawek.
  • Uzbekistan.
  • Brest (Belarus)
  • Rybinsk (IAroslavskaia oblast', Russia)
  • Forced labor.
  • Caucasus.
  • Israel.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Pogroms--Poland--Wloclawek.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Soviet Union.
  • Zionists.
  • Antisemitism--Poland.
  • Poland--Armed Forces.
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Israel-Arab War, 1967.
  • Smolensk (Russia)

Genre

  • Oral History
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