Oral history interview with Leon Merrick
Biographical History
This is an interview conducted for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program, a seasonal program that enables USHMM visitors to hear Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Leon Merrick
- Merrick, Leon.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Death marches.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Forced labor.
- Death march survivors.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Łódź (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History