Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

• Contents
• Map

Aaron Salzburg - July 24, 1984

Aaron Salzburg was born on April 2, 1919 in Opatów, Poland. Aaron recounts life in Pre-War Poland and his experiences in many different ghettos, labor and concentration camps throughout Poland and Germany during the Second World War. Opatów became a ghetto after the German occupation of Poland. In 1939, Aaron was sent to the Sandomierz ghetto, where he eventually escaped and ended up in a camp called Kocina. After falling ill with typhus, Aaron made a full recovery and was selected to go to Skarżysko and later onto Częstochowa, both forced labor camps. In Skarżysko and Częstochowa, Aaron worked for HASAG--a privately owned German industrial company. He was later moved to Buchenwald, where he stayed in Dora, a branch of Buchenwald which became its own camp in 1944. Aaron was eventually moved to the Bergen-Belsen detention camp, where on April 15, 1945, the camp was liberated by the British Army.

Link to Portraits of Honor Project

1. Introduction
2. German Occupation of Poland
3. Opatów Ghetto
4. Conditions in the Camps and Ghettos
5. Liquidation
6. Tragedies of War
7. Tragedies of War II
8. Anti-Semitism
9. Attitudes in Poland
10. Stories from Treblinka
11. Stories from Treblinka II
12. Fate of Family
13. Opatów Post-Liquidation
14. Pre-WWII Life in Opatów
15. Pre-WWII Life in Opatów II
16. Role of the Catholic Church in Poland
17. Sandomierz
18. Escape from Sandomierz
19. Kocina
20. Outbreak of Typhus
21. Selection for Skarżysko
22. Selection for Skarżysko II
23. Skarżysko
24. Skarżysko II
25. Skarżysko III
26. Work in Skarżysko
27. HASAG
28. HASAG II
29. Częstochowa
30. Częstochowa II
31. Buchenwald and Dora
32. Dora
33. Dora II
34. Bergen-Belsen
35. Conclusion