Visiting Birkenau with Max Eisen

Max Eisen was on one of these transports from Hungary.

Watch Max recall the arrival. Tap the image to play the 360 degrees video.

About the Interviewee

Max Eisen was born in 1929 in Moldava na Bodvou, Czechoslovakia. In the spring of 1944, Max was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he survived the selection. Most of his family members were killed upon arrival. Max, his father and uncle were selected for slave labor and were marched to the Auschwitz I camp from Birkenau.

Max was liberated after several death marches at the camp of Ebensee on May 6, 1945.


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