Labor Camps

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Article discusses the experiences of Israel and Paula Kaminsky in a labor camp in Siberia during World War II, their time in a DP camp, and their arrival in the United States, settling in New Britain, CT.

File This file contains information on Simon Konover’s experience fleeing the Nazis as well as his career in real estate and his philanthropic endeavors. There is some information about his wife Doris Konover and their there children. This file also contains the transcripts of Konover’s 1985 and 2004 interviews. 1985 Interview Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Poland, his father’s occupation driving buses before the war,...

Scope and Contents Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Poland, his father’s occupation driving buses before the war, escaping a labor camp to Lumza, Russia where he joined the army driving trucks, experience during the war, being sent to Siberia, experience after the end of the war returning to Poland, immigration to America via Cuba to join brother David, last name change, information about his surviving brothers David and Harold, working in New York, moving to Hartford and working at...

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Folder contains: empty envelope with former contents written on one side; Acquisition sheet listing former contents of envelope; typed memoirs of Leo and Trudy detailing survival of the Holocaust; obituary; thank you note for work on Yom Hashoa exhibit; thank you note in envelope.

Scope and Contents Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Poland, his father’s occupation driving buses before the war, escaping a labor camp to Lumza, Russia where he joined the army driving trucks, experience during the war, being sent to Siberia, experience after the end of the war returning to Poland, immigration to America via Cuba to join brother David, last name change, information about his surviving brothers David and Harold, working in New York, moving to Hartford and working at...

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Subjects of interview include: Personal experiences in Holocaust; work in a labor camp; Polish anti-semitism; liquidation of the Jews from Poland.

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Folder contains: one 5x7 black and white photograph of Mitlak family (7 out of 8 killed in the Holocaust); One news clipping describing the life and work of Mitlak; photographic negative.