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Oral history interview with Alfred Lakritz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.64 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0173

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    Oral history interview with Alfred Lakritz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alfred Julian Lakritz, born on June 1, 1934 in Kiel, Germany, describes his family; narrowly escaping deportation to Poland in 1939 and moving to Antwerp, Belgium and then Marmande, France with his family; experiencing antisemitism from his peers in Marmande; how his father was arrested; speaking with the men who arrested his father many years later, and their regret; being sent with his brother to a Jewish summer camp in Creuse, France in July 1942; going into hiding in various safe houses for two and a half years after leaving the camp; ending up at a convent in Lourdes, France, where they met a Jewish French woman who took them in for the remainder of the war; being placed in a Catholic home in Tarbes with his brother after the war; reuniting with their mother in Marmande and applying for visas to the United States; immigrating to the United States in 1950 and settling in Oakland, CA; attending the University of California at Berkeley; completing his law degree; moving to Los Angeles, CA with his wife, whom he had met in law school; and raising a family.
    Interviewee
    Alfred J. Lakritz
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  2008 April 03

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    5 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Lakritz, Alfred, 1934-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Alfred Lakritz on April 3, 2008. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2008.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:12:51
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