File:Interview William J Lowenberg 1993 - KZ Außenlager Kaufering Landsberg - subcamp Dachau 1944 1945.webm

Kaufering subcamp system, subcamps I – Landsberg, II – Igling, III – Kaufering, IV – Hurlach, VII – Erpfting or XI – Stadtwaldhof/Landsberg. William J. Lowenberg on his transport to Kaufering, camp structure and size, earth huts, building bunkers, mass graves, suicides, unimaginable hunger, electric fence, typhus, cold, escape attempts, mistreatment, women's camps, work, forced prostitution, "Thank you" , Trust, death march towards Dachau, to subcamp Munich-Allach, massacre, liberation by the US Army, tattooed concentration camp number. Series A) Tape 1: Part 1/5, B) 2. Part 4/5, C) Tape 2: Part 2/5, D) 2. Part 5/5, E) Tape 3: Part 3/5 / Oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg / Oral History / RG Number: RG-50.030.0139 / William J. Lowenberg, born on August 14, 1926 in Ochtrup, Germany, describes his family; moving to Borculo, Netherlands in 1936 because of the antisemitism his family was experiencing; attending school and working as a delivery boy for his father’s new store; his family’s arrest in 1940 and their deportation to Westerbork, where he performed forced labor in a metal shop; his family’s transport in 1943 to Birkenau, where his parents and sister died; his transfer to Warsaw, Poland, where he worked with a unit responsible for demolishing buildings in the former ghetto after saving whatever could be re-used by the German Army; remaining in Warsaw until late 1944, when he was taken to Dachau; going through the sub-camps of Dachau until he was sent on a death march, where Allied forces liberated him in April 1945; and returning to the Netherlands after his liberation. / Interviewee William J. Lowenberg / Interviewer Joan Ringelheim / Date interview: 1993 January 28 / Geography creation: Washington (D.C.) / Language English / Genre/Form Oral histories. / Extent 5 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. / Credit Line United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection / Special Collection The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive / Topical Term Antisemitism--Germany. / Death marches--Germany. / Jews--Germany--Ochtrup. / World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. / Men--Personal narratives. / Geographic Name / Personal Name Lowenberg, William J., 1926- / Corporate Name Dachau (Concentration camp) / Holder of Originals United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Legal Status Permanent Collection / Provenance Joan Ringelheim, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg on January 28, 1993 in Washington, DC. /