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Biographical essay by Sasha Semenoff, 2014

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Date
2014
Description

Sasha Semenoff survived several internment camps during the Holocaust, and ultimately recovered and became an entertainer in Las Vegas.

Digital ID
jhp000546
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http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1rn32z55
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Subject
Concentration camps
Resource Type
Text
Material Type
biography (general genre)
Digital Project
Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project
Citation

jhp000546. Generations of the Shoah - Nevada Records, approximately 2001-2020. MS-00720. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1rn32z55

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English

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Sasha Semenoff Virtual Book Sasha was born in 1924 in Riga, Latvia. He had a sister who also survived the Holocaust. In 1941 the Nazis came to Riga. They formed a ghetto for the Jews but Sasha fled the ghetto and went to work in a factory in an apartment building. He stayed there until he was sent to concentration camp. He was in 4 camps including Stutthof and Guttendorf. He did a variety of work: from the kitchen to clean up on U boat construction. (Stutthof) He was liberated by the Soviets in March of 1945 while the war still raged in Europe. The Soviet troops did not help him; they put him in jail. A Soviet doctor put him into a hospital and that saved his life. He ended up in 3 hospitals after his liberation. Sasha became an entertainer in Las Vegas.