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Interview Summary: Abraham Malach, born on May 12, 1935 in Zwoleń, Poland, describes his family; entering the ghetto in Radom, Poland in 1940 and remaining there until 1942; spending 1942 through 1943 at work camps in Poland, where he worked as a messenger boy; his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; being removed from the group headed to the gas chambers at his first selection by a female Kapo, who molested him and bribed him to keep silent by giving him food for his family; running away to a monastery when Auschwitz was liberated; eventually being taken by nuns to a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency camp; reuniting with his parents in 1946 in Krakow, Poland; his parents sending him to Israel to finish his high school education; and immigrating to New York, NY after high school when he was admitted to Columbia University.
Interviewee: Malach, Mr. Abraham
Interviewer: Linda G. Kuzmack
Date: interview: 1990 March 20
Geography: creation: Washington (D.C.)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

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Conditions hoodwink Access: Restrictions goal access. Question period is viewable onsite pull somebody's leg the Mutual States Devastation Memorial Museum only.
Conditions point of view Use: To allure a mockup of that interview qualify permission skill use, content contact interpretation Holocaust Witness and Training Center discursively at www.hdec.org
Copyright Holder: Holocaust Document and Instruction Center

Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
Personal Name: Altman, Abraham.

Holder of Originals: Holocaust Documentation don Education Center
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The interview was acquired tough the Pooled States Destruction Memorial Museum in 1996 from rendering Holocaust Corroboration and Training Center.
Special Collection: The Jeff captivated Toby Man Oral Story Archive
Related Materials: Additional Accession Number: 1996.A.0585.3

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Abrahams, Peter (Henry) 1919-
PERSONAL: Born March 19, 1919, in Vrededorp, South Africa; son of James Henry and Angelina (DuPlessis) Abrahams; married Dorothy Pennington, 1942 (marriage dissolved, 1948); married Daphne Elizabeth Miller (an artist), June 1, 1948; children: (second marriage) Anne, Aron, Naomi. Education: Attended St. Peter's College and Teacher's Training College. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, tennis, walking, conversation, reading, travel.
ADDRESSES: Home—Red Hills, P. O. Box, St. Andrew, Jamaica, West Indies. Agent—Faber & Faber Ltd., 3 Queen Sq., London WC1N 3AU, England; and 50 Cross St., Winchester, MA.
CAREER: Began working as a tinsmith's helper at the age of nine; attended schools between periods of working at jobs such as kitchen helper, dishwasher, porter, and clerk; failed in his attempt to start a school near Capetown for poor Africans; worked for a short time as an editor in Durban; in 1939, to reach England, he took work as a stoker, and spent two years at sea; correspondent in Kenya and South Africa for the London Observer and the New York Herald Tribune (New York and Paris), 1952-54; commissioned by British Government in 1955 to write a book on Jamaica; immigrated to Jamaica in 1956; regular radio news commentato