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Oral history interview with Erwin Dankner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.236.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0674

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    Oral history interview with Erwin Dankner

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    Interview Summary
    Erwin Dankner, born in 1928 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his parents, Henry and Catherina; his brother who was born in 1929; his father, who was a very successful jeweler in Budapest; growing up in a wealthy, conservative Jewish family; attending the Rombach synagogue; his father's consideration of emigration several times; leading normal lives before March 1944 when the Germans occupied Hungary; his father's deportation to a labor camp, during which he broke his collarbone and had to recuperate for six weeks; his family escaping death by being able to get into the Kastner Group (Kastner Train), which was assembled to enable certain Jews to leave Hungary; going with 10 of their family members to Bergen-Belsen after his father bribed a German woman to help them; spending six months in the camp and being treated differently from other prisoners; being fed adequately; being sent with a group to Switzerland in the fall of 1944; living in Montreux, Switzerland until 1948; his father being able to retrieve his jewelry instruments from Hungary and continuing his work in Switzerland; sailing to New York, NY; and visiting family in Hungary.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Erwin R. Dankner
    Interviewer
    Swift, Leslie
    Date
    interview:  2012 October 03

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Leslie Swift, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Erwin Dankner by telephone on October 3, 2012.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:13
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