Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Jack Weinberger - February 6, 1983


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.

  1. Introduction
  2. Life before German invasion
  3. Life before Hungarian Invasion
  4. Sokirnitsa Ghetto
  5. Arrival in Auschwitz
  6. Life in Germany
  7. Inside a Work Camp
  8. Camp Ebensee
  9. Camp Supervisors
  10. Food in the Work Camps
  11. Kapos
  12. Dogs as Weapons
  13. Medical Care
  14. Closing Down Camp
  15. After the Camps
  16. Humanity
  17. Liberation
  18. Coming to America
  19. Assimilating
  20. After the Camps
  21. Moving On
  22. Camp Recollections
  23. Contact with Germans
  24. Conclusion

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