Clara Grossman

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Clara Grossman was the second of Ann and Armin Hercz’s four children. Following the Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944, Clara and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After a few weeks in Auschwitz, she was selected for a transfer to Stutthof where she performed forced labor until she was liberated on a death march.

Clara emerged from the camps a 15-year-old orphan. Arriving in the USA in 1948, she completed her schooling in Pennsylvania where she lived with relatives. She and her husband moved to Kansas City in 1989.

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Clara Grossman Audio Testimony - August 26, 1999

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History and Related Resources

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Auschwitz-Protocol
Black, Peter. “Forced Labor in the Concentration Camps, 1942-1944.” In A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, edited by Michael Berenbaum, 46-63.
Braham, Randolph. The Politics of Genocide.
Destruction of Hungarian Jews
Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt. Auschwitz.
Forced Labor
Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe
Gutman, Yisrael and Michael Berenbaum. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
The Holocaust in Hungary
The Holocaust In Hungary: Frequently Asked Questions
Hoess, Rudolf. Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
Hungary Before the German Occupation
Hungary After the German Occupation
Megargee, Geoffrey editor. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945.
Stutthof
Stutthof Concentration Camp

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Auschwitz Album Photographs

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Testimonies may be used for individual research with proper citation. All other uses require written permission from MCHE. The above video testimony is edited from a full-length testimony that may be viewed onsite at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education or at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

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