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Holocaust Survivor Visits Przemysl

The following photos were taken by Jack Fields during his trip to Przemysl in the summer of 1999. Jack is a Holocaust Survivor and a former resident of Przemysl. The following is his story. We thank Jack for sharing these memories with us.

Please note that Mr. Fields' testimony, together with the testimonies of other Przemysl Survivors as well as non-Jewish residents of Przemysl, has been published recently in:

Hartman, John. I Remember Every Day... The Fate of the Jews of Przemysl During World War II, Towarzystwo Przyjaciol Nauk, Przemysl. Published in Polish and in English language versions.

My name was Izio (Izak) Felder and it is now Jack Fields.

I was born in Przemysl before World War II and we lived in our own one family house in the centre of the city. My father's name was Hersz, my mothers name was Dina. I had a younger sister Feiga (but she was called Dziunia) and a brother Marek (called Munio).

Life at home was very good and we were not poor and not rich but
somewhere in the middle. Every year we have travelled to the country
for one month school holidays.

When war started in 1939, our life changed drastically. I was still a child then. Within a week, the Germans entered our city and after about a week they withdrew to the western side of the city and the river San became the border. We lived on the Eastern side of the river San which became part of the Soviet Union.

Life returned almost back to normal until the time when Germany
attacked the Soviet Union in June, 1941.

The Germans entered the Eastern part of the city again and the Jewish people were herded into Ghettos and later into concentration camps and so called (in German) Vernichtungslager -- the killing camps .

In 1941 I was in the Przemysl ghetto, followed by P.Z.L. (PolskieZaklady Lotnicze –Polish Aircraft Manufacture) in Rzeszow, which the Germans turned into a forced labour camp. It was called "Flug Motoren Vork Reichshof" in German (translation: Aircraft Motor Works in Rzeszow). Then I was in the ghetto in Rzeszow, forced labour camp in Pustkow, Auschwitz (Birkenau) concentration camp, forced labour camp in Gleiwitz3, from where we were forced to go on a big long march, concentration camp Blechhamer, concentration camp Gross-Rosen, concentration camp Buchenwald. From Buchenwald, I was transported to Commando Flosberg and after that we were transported to Concentration Camp Mauthausen.

The camp was liberated by the Americans but later taken over by the Russians in a territory exchange.

I have luckily survived all the concentration camps and returned to Poland in 1945. Eventually, I migrated to Australia in 1950.

I was always very interested to find out more details about Przemysl and I visited Przemysl several times. The last visit was in 1999.

Jack Fields (Izio Felder)

Franciszkanska Street	Jagiellonska Street	Rynek
Snigurskiego Street	Plac na Bramie	Stairs in Rynek
Wladycze	Inside the Central Railway Station	Railway bridge
Zasanie Railway Station	Unusual House Near Zamek	Upper Zamek Entrance
Zamek Park	Lower Zamek Entrance	Entrance to the Jewish Cemetery
The Cemetery Wall	Holocaust Memorial	Holocaust Memorial Close-Up
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