Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 03, Samuel Lerer

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Interview with Samuel Lerer (Zolkiewka 1 October 1922). Lerer was one of the first prisoners to arrive in Sobibor. He was ordered to look after the horses and this gave him access to much of the camp. During the uprising both his brothers were killed. Etched in his mind is 'how my father went to the gas chamber naked'.In the camp he also had to fatten up ducks for SS officer Frenzel. After the war in Berlin he and Esther Raab exposed SS officer Bauer, the operator of the gas engine. Samuel Lerer moved to Brooklyn in the United States, where he worked as a taxi driver. He is currently living in Marlboro, New Jersey USA and has survived to know two children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and one on the way.

Date Submitted: 2012-06-29

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zn7-xkbg
Metadata Access https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/dans-zn7-xkbg
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Creator Jules Schelvis; NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Publisher DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Contributor NIOD Onderzoeksdata
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
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Contact NIOD Onderzoeksdata (NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies)
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Discipline History; Humanities