Israel I. Cohen oral history interview

This is an oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Israel I. Cohen. Cohen was born in Lodz, Poland and was first imprisoned in the ghetto there in 1939. He spent the next six years in concentration camps, ending up in Kaufering, from which he was liberated on April 27, 1945. In this interview, Cohen describes the last few days in Kaufering before liberation and the beginning of his recovery. The guards burned the barracks, and Cohen spent several hours hiding in a pile of corpses before the Americans arrived. He spent the night at a German farmer\u27s house before being taken to a hospital and then to a displaced persons camp in Landsberg. Cohen\u27s memoir, Destined to Survive, was published in 2001