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Oral history interview with Alexander Ehrlich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.230 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0230

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    Oral history interview with Alexander Ehrlich

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alexander Ehrlich, born in Łódź, Poland in 1928, describes life before the war; his immediate and extended family; the beginning of the war; attending school until 4th grade; the black market; life in the Łódź ghetto; the synagogues being burned; the Jewish police; the physical effects he experienced from starvation; being sent to Auschwitz; conditions in Auschwitz; his work in Braunschweig for eight months; his transfer to Watenstedt and life in the camp; being taken by train to Ravensbrück; experiencing dysentery; being sent to Sundwigslust; liberation by the Americans; traveling to Łódź after the war; being taken to Kibbutz Waldorf in Germany; living in Bachenburg, Germany; receiving false Red Cross identity and traveling via Prague, Vienna, and Italy to Israel; arrival in Israel; and the psychological effects of the Holocaust and how the Eichmann trial was a turning point for him.
    Interviewee
    Alexander Ehrlich
    Date
    interview:  1995 June 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    9 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Alexander Ehrlich in Israel on June 2, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    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 08:15:39
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