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Oral history interview with Ernie Pollak

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.198 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0582

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    Oral history interview with Ernie Pollak

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    Interview Summary
    Ernie Pollak discusses speaking Yiddish as a child in Hungary; how his father, a WW I veteran, owned a Kosher butcher shop; going to Budapest in 1942 learning to be a dental technician when he was 15 years old with his brother David; living in Romania when the war started; the German occupation of Hungary; living in a ghetto; being marched out of the ghetto each day for forced labor; how his brother David was in hiding with his girlfriend; seeing Raoul Wallenberg; conditions in the ghetto; marching to Mauthausen Concentration Camp; his liberation by American soldiers; seeing former camp inmates suffer from eating too much after being liberated; learning that his sister was in Bergen-Belsen; moving to the United States; reuniting with his surviving family members; and his religious views before and after the war.
    Interviewee
    Ernie Pollak
    Interviewer
    Judy Cohen
    Date
    interview:  2010 March 01

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Pollak, Ernie.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Ernie Pollak on March 1, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in August 2010.
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    2023-11-16 08:03:42
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