Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Pincus Kolender

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Title:

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.

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)
Buna (Concentration camp)
Kolender, Pincus, 1926-2008 – Interviews
Treblinka (Concentration camp)

Topical Subject:

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

Geographic Subject:

Lowcountry

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Shelving Locator:

MSS 1035-146

Date Digital:

2011-05

Digitization Specifications:

Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.

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:

220764