Oral history interview with Leon Merrick
Extent and Medium
3 digital files, MP4
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
- Merrick, Leon.
- Leon Merrick
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Death march survivors.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Łódź.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Death marches.
- Forced labor.
- Łódź (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Oral History