| Title: |
Shep Zitler
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Tulane University. Southern Institute for Education and Research
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| Collection: |
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors
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| Description: |
Shep Zitler was born in Vilna, Poland. He was seventeen in 1939 when he was drafted into the Polish army. In the beginning of World War II, he was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. He survived five years and eight months in Nazi captivity.
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| URL: |
http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/shep_zitler.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Zitler, Shep, 1917-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
27-May-1917
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Poland; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Robinson, Plater
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| Historical events discussed: |
Holocaust, 1938-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Louisiana; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Emigration and immigration; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, 1938-1945; Immigrants; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Louisiana; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025929-27860
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