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Oral history interview with Eli Rock

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0063 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0386

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    Oral history interview with Eli Rock

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eli Rock, born on August 12, 1915 in Rochester, NY, describes growing up with Russian Jewish immigrant parents; practicing law in Rochester until he moved to Washington, DC in December 1942 to work for the Labor Relations Board; joining the American Field Service in late 1944 to be a part of the war efforts; serving as an ambulance driver for the French Army in Germany; being hired by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to help with relief efforts and to act as an interpreter to the French Jewish community; organizing a tracing center to reunite survivors with their families and administrating the dispatch of relief teams to Feldafing, a displaced persons camp in Germany; accompanying General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George S. Patton when they visited Feldafing on September 15, 1945; returning to New York in December 1945 but returning to Europe to direct the JDC office in Berlin, Germany; helping Jewish survivors to reach the American zone of Berlin and running the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Berlin from January 1946 until January 1947; returning to New York in February 1947, where he worked as a lawyer for the JDC until 1948; helping to create the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization whose function was to provide restitution for Jewish property in Germany; and continuing his work as a lawyer in Philadelphia.
    Interviewee
    Eli Rock
    Interviewer
    Randy M. Goldman
    Date
    interview:  1998 January 28

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Randy M. Goldman, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Eli Rock on January 28, 1998.
    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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