Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Pincus Kolender
Date:
1997
Interviewer:
Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-;Grossman, Michael Samuel
Interviewee:
Kolender, Pincus, 1926-2008
Description:
Holocaust survivor, Pincus Kolender, tells the story of his life from his boyhood in Bochnia, Poland, to the significance of the Holocaust Memorial in his adopted city of Charleston, South Carolina, where he and his wife, Renee, a fellow survivor, raised their children. He describes life in Bochnias Jewish ghetto after the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, his captivity at Birkenau, Buna, and Auschwitz, evading selection for the gas chambers, being wounded in an Allied air attack, surviving a death march, escaping the Nazis, hiding in the Czech forest, working for an American army unit, and immigrating to America.
