Survivors/Connecticut/Levy, Henry, 1991

Containers:

Box 2

Extent:

Newspaper clippings and copied biography/press release.

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Henry Levy, a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut was born in April 1926, in Salonica, Greece. Mr. Levy fled Salonica for Palestine in March 1942, when the town was under Nazi occupation. He was soon captured near the Turkish border, imprisoned and brutally interrogated in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, sentenced to die as a spy and shuffled from prison to prison, and, finally, deported to the Birkenau concentration camp in the spring of 1943.

In August 1943, Mr. Levy and 3500 other Greek Jews were transported from the camp to Warsaw to remove the debris from its ghetto. They removed the corpses of Jewish resistance fighters, as well as those of the SS officers and others who fought against the resistance. They also built what became the Warsaw concentra¬tion camp, and witnessed such horrors as the degrading conversion of a synagogue into a stable for SS horses. In November 1944, the Warsaw Ghetto was razed and its inhabitants moved to the Dachau concentration camp. More than half perished during the long journey on foot. At the camp, Mr. Levy was assigned to help in the manufacture of concrete blocks and ammunition. He made sure that much of his output was defective. On March 27, 1945, Dachau was evacuated and its inhabitants transported by train, for 33 days, without apparent destination. On May 1, 1945, the train doors opened and the captives were free. The war was over.

Newspaper articles from the Hartford Courant (09/17/1991) featuring story on West Hartford Holocaust survivor Henry Levy.

Extent:

Newspaper clippings and copied biography/press release.

Subjects:

Holocaust survivors

Names:

Levy, Henry, b. 1926, Salonica, Greece

Places:

West Hartford, CT

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