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Zablow, Lou - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67776
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:24:52
- Language
- English
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- Lou Zablow was born on March 10, 1924 in Lodz, Poland. When he was 11, he joined a Zionist organization that prepared him to make Aliyah. As Germany invaded Poland, Lou’s father was drafted into the Polish army. On March 10, 1940, Lou and his mother were forced to move to the ghetto by three Germans. In the ghetto, Lou joined the Hanoar Hatzioni Zionist settlement. For almost one year, he worked in this agricultural settlement and went to school to prepare for making Aliyah. When Rumkowsky was asked to shut down all the Zionist settlements in the ghetto, Lou was in charge of caring for 35 orphans. For one year, he took care of their health and education. At that point, he was sent to work for a carpenter but, when people in charge of the ghetto learned he had an advanced level of education, he was transferred to do administrative work for several factories. Before being sent to Auschwitz, Lou and his fellow inmates were told by Biebow that they were going to be resettled in Germany. Lou stayed four days in Auschwitz where he evaded several selections before being sent to Lieberose, Sachenhausen, and Mauthausen concentration camps. In April 1945, he was forced on a death march to Gunskirchen concentration camp where he was liberated by the US army. Soon after his liberation, Lou became sick with typhus. He survived and started to work as an interpreter for the US army. He stayed in Linz until 1949 then moved to Montreal. It was so hard for him to make a living in Canada that he considered going back to Europe. Nonetheless, he persevered and managed to start a new life in his new country. Lou Zablow took part in the creation of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center.
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- WTH-424
- Name Access
- Zablow, Lou
- Places
- Lodz , Poland , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Zablow, Lou - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OkxV0Hmu1lM
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