Emil: episodes and remembrance
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Emil Jacoby
Biographical History
Emil Jacoby is a native of Czechoslovakia and a survivor of the Holocaust. He was a prisoner at Auschwitz and was liberated by the Soviet Army.
Archival History
Emil Jacoby
Acquisition
The testimony was written by Emil Jacoby during 1988 and 1989.
Scope and Content
The testimony describes Emil Jacoby's Holocaust recollections and his return to Eastern Europe to visit various concentration camps in 1987. Included is information about imprisonment at Auschwitz, survival of a death march in Austria, liberation by the Soviet army, and Jacoby's involvement in a Zionist organization called the Palestine Brigade (a.k.a. Jewish Brigade).
People
- Jacoby, Emil.
- Jaboby, Betty.
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Austria.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Communism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Art.
- Zionism.
- Artists.
- Gas chambers.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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