Interview with Ignazc Rub

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Hungarian Jewish forced labourer in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union 1941-1943; inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Janinagrube Subcamp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp and Auschwitz III-Monowitz in Poland, 8/1944-1/1945 and Landshut Subcamp, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 1/1945-5/1945

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of background in Transylvania, Hungary, 1922-1940: family circumstances; lack of anti-Semitism experienced; conscription to Royal Hungarian Army, 1940. Recollections of period as forced labourer in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, 1941-1943: work as technician; composition of group; contact with German workers; story of restoring electricity for German Army officer; treatment by Hungarian guards; method of cooking potatoes; listening to British Broadcasting Corporation. REEL 2 Continues: attitude of German Army officer towards Jewish labourers; surrounding of area by partisans; evidence of Russian advance; clearing up duties in Babi Yar area; return to Hungary. Aspects of period as inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, 8/1944-9/1944: advice given to Jewish mother on arrival; role in charge of wagon during train journey from Hungary to Asuschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland; selection process. Aspects of period as inmate at Janinagrube Subcamp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, 1944: coal mining work; story of beating by Germans for possessing a bag. REEL 3 Continues: hearing of Allied landings in Normandy, France, 6/1944. Aspects of period as inmate of I G Farben works, Auschwitz III-Monowitz Concentration Camp, Poland, 1944-1945: work as electrician; work on construction of decoy factory; hearing of Schutzstaffel (SS) plans to destroyed camp; sabotage; Allied bombing of factories; discussion with Primo Levi about staying behind after German withdrawal. Aspects of march from Auschwitz III-Monowitz Concentration Camp, Poland, 1/1945: German Schutzstaffel (SS) guards shooting of stragglers; foraging for food; effects on prisoners of eating rotten carrots; death of prisoners locked in room without much oxygen; suffering from hunger; confinement in bunkers; escape from march; burning out of concentration camp number. REEL 4 Continues: sight of German refugees escaping from Soviet forces; re-arrest by Schutzstaffel (SS). Aspects of period as inmate in Landshut Subcamp, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 1/1945-5/1945: treatment on arrival; story of how he became camp electrician; infestation of fleas; liberation by Soviet Army, 5/1945; opinion of Soviet Army; anti-Semitic remarks by Polish former inmate; return to Hungary. Reflection on Holocaust experiences: loss of religious faith in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp; reasons for not discussing sabotage exploits. REEL 5 Continues: problems encountered in studying in Vienna, Austria; attitude towards Germans; reasons for move to Australia; marriage and move to GB; reasons for not discussing experiences with children; long-term effects of experiences; discussion of bread balance donated to Imperial War Museum.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Smith, Lyn E (Recorder)
Rub, Ignazc (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1998-03-09
Dimensions: whole: Duration 135, Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 17974

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Rub, Ignacz
Levi, Primo Michele
German Concentration Camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Subcamp, Janinagrube, Poland
German Concentration Camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland
German Concentration Camp, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, Poland
German Concentration Camp, Dachau, Subcamp, Landshut, Germany
German Paramilitary Organisation, Schutzstaffel (SS)
Royal Hungarian Army
British Broadcasting Corporation
Museum, Imperial War Museum, London
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replica set of scales
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Hungary
Transylvania, Hungary
Soviet Union
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Babi Yar, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Poland
Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland
Auschwitz III-Monowitz Concentration Camp, Poland
Germany
Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Austria
Vienna, Austria
Australia
England, United Kingdom
Associated keywords

refugee
Associated themes

Nazi Europe, 1933-1945
Holocaust

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