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Insights into slave labour from a Holocaust survivor

September 21, 2010 13:41
Marcel Tuchman

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Toby Axelrod,

Toby Axelrod

1 min read

Hidden behind protective trees on a green hillside is a small, private Holocaust memorial. At the feet of six rough, natural boulders on a low stone, forged in metal, is the word zachor - remember.

It is the key word in the title of Marcel Tuchman's new autobiography, Remember: My Stories of Survival and Beyond, to be published in coming weeks by Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Project.

It offers rare into a little-known chapter: the recruitment of slave labourers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Siemens, the German industrial giant.

Mr Tuchman, 88, professor of clinical medicine at NYU Medical School, wrote the book to "maintain the haggadah" - the recounting - "of the Holocaust".