Jack Weinberger - February 6, 1983
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Jack Weinberger was born in 1929 in the town of Volové, Czechoslovakia, Jack and his family were taken from their home in 1944 by Hungarian troops. They were first sent to the Sokirnitsa ghetto in Hungary before being deported to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, Jack was sent to the Wolfsburg labor camp in Germany and finally, to Ebensee, where he was liberated in 1945. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, residing in Cleveland, Ohio before settling in Michigan with his wife and their two children. Mr. Weinberger became a US citizen in 1953 and fought in the Korean War.
- Introduction
- Life before German invasion
- Life before Hungarian Invasion
- Sokirnitsa Ghetto
- Arrival in Auschwitz
- Life in Germany
- Inside a Work Camp
- Camp Ebensee
- Camp Supervisors
- Food in the Work Camps
- Kapos
- Dogs as Weapons
- Medical Care
- Closing Down Camp
- After the Camps
- Humanity
- Liberation
- Coming to America
- Assimilating
- After the Camps
- Moving On
- Camp Recollections
- Contact with Germans
- Conclusion
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