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Oral history interview with Harry Ebert

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.357 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0592

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    Oral history interview with Harry Ebert

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    Interview Summary
    Harry Ebert discusses his childhood in Heidelberg, Germany; moving to Mannheim, Germany, where his father joined his grandfather’s law firm; attending two private boarding schools in Italy, one near Milan, Italy; his experiences in Italy; leaving Italy in 1938 and returning to Mannheim; attending a Jewish boarding school in Germany; his sisters’ escape to Holland, Netherlands with family friends; leaving on the Kindertransport in January 1939; his father’s arrest and internment in Dachau; how the bishop of Lichfield, England sponsored his father’s release; traveling to Rotterdam, Netherlands; staying in quarantine in Rotterdam; living in Holland until April 1940; training in the oil and gas field while living in the Netherlands; how his father went to England while his mother stayed in Germany; the deportation of his mother and maternal grandparents to a camp in Gurs, France; traveling from the Netherlands to England; immigrating to the United States with his family; settling in Manhattan, NY and later moving to Ohio; entering the Army Specialized Training Program; training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland; his experiences being stationed in Germany with the US Army from 1945 until 1947; working as an investigator in the Nuremberg Trials; investigating Alfred Krupp’s wartime activities; his career in the military; his extensive experiences while stationed in Europe; his experiences with war crime trials; his career in America; experiences living and working abroad; and speaking publicly about his career after World War II.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Harry W. Ebert
    Interviewer
    Ann E. Erling Gofus
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 16

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Harry Ebert during the Kindertransport Association Conference in Arlington, VA on October 16, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
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    2023-11-16 08:03:46
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