Interview with Mendal Hoffman,

Interview Summary

Mendal Hoffman was a Hungarian Jew who grew up during the Holocaust. He ran away from home to work in Budapest for a year before the Germans occupied Hungary, and he was sent to Auschwitz and then Wolfsberg concentration camps. He describes what it was like living in those labor camps and how he managed to survive. He also talks about how he was protected by a Kapo who looked after him and helped him to survive.

Hoffman was eventually transferred to Ebensee camp where he worked under very strenuous conditions until he was eventually liberated. He returned to Hungary which was under Russian rule at the time and eventually left for America.

Interview Keyword

Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Concentration camps Ebensee (Concentration camp) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Hungary

Interview LC Subject

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps

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