Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Joe Engel

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Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Joe Engel

Date:

1997

Interviewer:

Grossman, Michael Samuel

Interviewee:

Engel, Joe, 1927-

Description:

Joe Engel, who was twelve years old when the Nazis occupied Poland in 1939, describes life in his home town of Zakroczym, Poland, before and after the invasion. His family fled to Warsaw and then Plonsk, the ghetto from which they were transported to concentration camps. Joe was imprisoned at Birkenau, Buna, and, Auschwitz. He made a daring escape from a train after surviving a death march. After the war ended, he immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, where decades later his vision led to the construction of the Holocaust Memorial.

Collection Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories

Contributing Institution:

College of Charleston Libraries

Media Type:

Oral Histories

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Engel, Joe, 1927- -- Interviews
Buna (Concentration camp)

Topical Subject:

Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Holocaust survivors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jews -- Poland -- Zakroczym -- Social life and customs, Jews -- Poland -- Zakroczym -- History, World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Zakroczym, Death marches –- Germany, Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Plonsk, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- Jewish, and Holocaust memorial -- South Carolina –- Charleston

Geographic Subject:

Lowcountry

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Shelving Locator:

MSS 1035-147

Date Digital:

2011-05

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Internet Media Type:

application/pdf;audio/mpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Digital resource copyright 2011, The College of Charleston. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.

Admin ID:

220757