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Oral history interview with Eugene Miller

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.249 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0585

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    Oral history interview with Eugene Miller

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    Interview Summary
    Eugene Miller, born October 16, 1923, discusses his family’s background in Lithuania and Russia; his birth in Meretch (Merkine), Lithuania and childhood in Łódź, Poland; details of his education at a gymnasium before the war; his education in the Łódź ghetto; his attempted escape to Russia; the closing of the ghetto’s school in 1941; his memories of the Nazi-appointed ghetto leader, Mordekchai Chaim Rumkowski; industry and administration in the ghetto; his work at the ghetto's labor department and economic department; his transfer to the fire department; deportations and deaths in the ghetto; his mother’s sickness from typhoid and the death of his parents; his deportation to Auschwitz; the presence of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz; details of the train transport; his imprisonment in Birkenau, artificial rubber being made in Birkenau; his deportation to Dachau; details of his liberation; the arrival of American forces who distributed rations; deaths of former camp inmates by overeating; his return to Poland; meeting with a neighbor who tried to avoid him; his move to Frankfurt, Germany, where he attempted to attend university; his work with the Jewish Student Association; antisemitism in Poland; his wife’s time in nursing school; immigrating to the United States and attending Butler University in Indiana; earning his PhD at the University of Chicago; and his wife’s experience during the war.
    Interviewee
    Eugene Miller
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2010 September 13

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Eugene Miller on September 13, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
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    2023-11-16 08:03:43
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